Re: Where writing systems meet computers

> From: qalam@yahoogroups.com [mailto:qalam@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf

Of

> Richard Wordingham


> > I don't have time to dig up the info myself right now, but perhaps
> > someone here can explain why there are issues with Unicode-based
> > Inuktitut currently with the latest XP? Is it that Uniscribe doesn't
> > support the rendering? Search/sort algorithms fail? Something else?
>
> From the description, it sounds as though the main point is to
> translate the system menus and help - quite a task in itself.

It's none of the above. It has to do with default collation not
supporting Canadian Syllabics. It's not something that can readily be
updated on existing systems, and it wouldn't do very well to enable
ability to work with Cdn Syllabics text data when e.g. all filenames
consisting of Cdn Syllabics characters would compare as identical.

> Uniscribe oughtn't to be an issue at all - Canadian syllabics are a
> lot simpler than the 'Latin alphabet'; almost ASCII-like in

simplicity!

Indeed, Uniscribe isn't the issue.



Peter Constable