Peter Constable wrote:

>
> > 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.

Exactly. It's a big job; how big is the customer base? How many
Inuktitut-speakers are literate in Syllabics, and how many of that set
use Windows, and how many of that set want to use Syllabics rather than
romanization?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...