| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 551.1 | LEESIDE LYRE | SLSTRN::MANNING | | Fri Apr 14 1989 13:58 | 12 |
| This is a bit "way out," but when I worked in the typewriter repair
business many, many years ago in Cork we developed special Irish type
bars for machines used in local schools. The "sineadh" and "seimhu"
character were "no space" keys so that no carriage movement occurred
when they were struck. I suspect that such equipment has been relegated
to the status of museum pieces, but it seems logical that the schools
would have the same needs for Irish special keyboards to-day, although
the "New Spelling" has outmoded the pure Irish script. I seem to
remember that we had such equipment in the Crawford Tech. and in the
School of Commerce in Cork.
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| 551.2 | exit | TRIBES::CREAN | Per ardua ad anticlimax | Sat Apr 15 1989 07:34 | 10 |
| Thanks for the contribution. The reason for the query is that
the International Standards Organisation (ISO) is at present
developing a new 32-bit character-code to replace ASCII as the
world interchange standard.
I have obtained a pre-release copy of this standard (ISO 10646)
and found it does not contain the Uncial alphabet, though it
does contain Maldivian, Lao, Inniut, Cree etc. The DEC rep on
the steering committee has asked me to supply information about
any previous implementations.
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| 551.3 | Alaphabet >< Character | VOGON::WALTERS | | Mon Apr 17 1989 10:39 | 33 |
| Re 551.2
Would that be the note in the DELNI::WORLDWIDE notesfile?
If so, I think the standard refers to computer implementations
of alphabets that are still in common use. Is Uncial still
in use in books etc? In which case you may find an implementation
on an electronic typesetting system which could help to support
your proposal to have it adopted into ISO 10646.
Incidentally, "Alphabet" does not necessarily equate to character set
but characters and diacriticals - you would have to ensure that
you documented any ligatures or accented characters used in Uncial.
This is really "language support" rather than alphabet support.
For example, the Digital multinational character set supports
the French language allowing you to use "," and "c" to create
the composed character �. However, it does not allow you to
compose the Welsh accented character "w-circumflex".
Regards,
Colin
(PS - I know of one implementation of Welsh in an operating system on a
now defunct microcomputer called the 'Dragon'. And I have contacted the
Welsh office to ensure that they are pressing for Welsh language
support in ISO 10646, though they do not appear to know who is
responsible...... Good luck with Uncial.)
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| 551.4 | ISO standard | TRIBES::CREAN | Per ardua ad anticlimax | Mon Apr 17 1989 11:06 | 13 |
| The ISO standard will cover Alphabets, Syllabaries (like Cree
and Japanese), Symbolic systems (Chinese) and Mathematical
symbols, APL symbols, various graphic nice-things and anything
else anybody can think of.
The Uncial alphabet has largely been replaced by the Roman
alphabet but it is still in use. It is probably due for a
revival because it requires about 10% less key strokes and
takes up less space.
Yes, the topic was in DELNI::WORLDWIDE, that's where I first
came across it. These is a restricted conference on the
standard also. To gain access contact Martin Lasko at
HANNAH::LASKO.
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