--- "i18n@..." <i18n@...> wrote:

> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> >
> > Well, if Inuktitut is an official language of
> > Nunavut, it certainly makes sense! But don't hold
> > your breath waiting for the Syllabics version to
> > come along.
>
>
> Yeah, it will take a while. These things happen in
> milestones that could be years apart. But I suppose
> Microsoft will continue to make the resources
> available on its end as Windows and Office
> go through their own sets of upgrades, as long as
> the local group is willing to go along.
> Eventually there will be few technical issues
> remaining, and upgrades to translations will reach
> a predictable level, probably about 15% of the
> overall word count will change across major
> releases, so the translation/localization effort
> will become predictable.
>
> 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?

I doubt it. I think it's a very straightforward script
for Uniscribe. My guess is only that the interface of
Windows, Office, etc has not been translated. Some
effort may also need to be put into the keyboard.

Andrew Dunbar.

> Best,
>
> Barry
>
>

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