Re: Vai / Irish (was: Brief Notice of Rogers)

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> Technical complications I can think of are:
>
> 1) Keyboard design (but I'm not sure that there really are any
> special issues here). Would one need a Vai IME?
>
> 2) Transliteration, even between the three scripts used for Vai.

I'm

> not sure how possible this is - does the Roman script normally

show

> tonal information? Strictly speaking, transliteration into Vai
> should probably use the full repertoire even if the general

populace

> just ignores the 'diacritics'.
>
> 3) Folding from 'full' repertoire to 'general use' repertoire. I
> wonder if the Unicode standard should identify the 'general use'
> repertoire? Is this an editorial issue? It seems like a Unicode
> issue rather than an ISO/IEC 10646 issue to me.
>
> I don't think any of this detracts from the merits of the Vai
> proposal.

Thanks, Richard, you put this very well. #3 in particular.

Suzanne