New technology improves syllabics on the web (fwd)

[MiaKalish@LFP]

Hi, Keola,

I don't know too much about Hawai'ian, except that its so beautiful.

Can you give us a quick overview of how many letters are different and how
different the glyphs are? For Apache, we have the en-yay (n with a tilde
over it) and the voiceless l, both of which are available in UTF-8 and
Unicode. But we also have upper-lower case vowels with both the acute accent
and the cedilla, indicating nasalized, rising tone. The Unicode people have
said that we can use the new script to build these characters on the fly,
but the new script requires newer operating system capabilities, and has the
usual platform problems.

There's some Apache on the menus at
http://learningforpeople.us/MALibrary/index.htm. There aren't any of these
double characters, but you can see both the acute and the cedilla on the
vowels.

best,
Mia

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keola Donaghy" <keola at LEOKI.UHH.HAWAII.EDU>
To: <ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: New technology improves syllabics on the web (fwd)


> FWIW, we used Glyphgate (previously Fairy) for Hawaiian several years ago
> and worked with the developer to strengthen Hawaiian and Polynesian
> support, but eventually abandoned it and just converted our site to
> straight UTF-8. The company was very responsive and helpful, but I found
> myself spending far too much time tweaking the settings for broswers that
> did not require the plugin to display the language. Perhaps it's easier
> now. If anyone wants more details feel free to contact me directly.
>
> Keola
>
> Indigenous Languages and Technology <ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU> writes:
> >yes, i was impressed myself.  maybe it can be used to assist the
> >readability of fonts for other indigenous languages and communities.
>
>
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> Keola Donaghy
> Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies
> Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani             keola at leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu
> University of Hawai'i at Hilo           http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/
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