Fonts

[Keola Donaghy]

Aloha Maxine,

About 5 or 6 years ago we had also used Tavultesoft for Hawaiian language on Windows, both for a very old, customized 8 bit font system we developed as well as for Unicode. We had intermittent problems with it, and though the folks at Tavultesoft were helpful we decided to go a different direction and used a Keyboard Layout Creator from Microsoft. It's latest version is at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665.aspx

We created both Unicode and HI font versions of the keyboard and have had no problems with them. I have not tried it with Win2010 myself, but others have reported to me that it works fine. I have used it with Win XP, 2000 and Vista with no problems.

Re: conversion. I created a couple of macros for converting documents between our HI fonts and Unicode that works very well. We only have 11 characters that need to be switched, so it's not that difficult. If you like I can send you a copy. Unfortunately MS eliminated the macro functionality in Word for Mac (most of our programs are Mac centric), but a friend who works at MS created an Applescript for us that provides the same functionality.

If you'd like to see our Hawaiian conversion macros let me know and I'll send you a doc that contains them. It might be a good starting point.

Keola


On 2010 Pep. 28, at 20:10, Maxine Rose Baptiste wrote:

> Hi, I have a question about Tavultesoft keyboards and fonts. For our language, we have had various fonts that we have used over the years as well as with the various operating systems that have been a part of Microsoft, BaskerPhon for Word 97, Windows 2000, PhGothic for Windows 2000 and 2003, and most recently Unicode. Unicode is temperamental in Windows 2007 and 2010 Beta. Unfortunately we have not been able to keep up with the changing technology as we still have some language teachers working with Windows 2000/2003 and we still have files in BaskerPhon, PhGothic and now Unicode. My question is how can we access these older files, or build a macro that enables these older files to be transferred to Unicode and is there any way we can have these fonts work with Windows 2007/2010? I am not a techy, just trying to access the older files that were made in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Thanks for any help, Maxine



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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/

"Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam."  (Irish Gaelic saying)
A country without its language is a country without its soul.
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