Re: Wogb3 j3k3: Pre-Unicode substitutions for extended characters live on

2016-10-11 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 8:55 AM wrote: > What is current thinking / practice wrt expanding virtual keyboards? > I'm just a user here, and that of the English and Esperanto keyboards on Android, but given swipe input and autocorrect both depending on knowing what language is

Re: Wogb3 j3k3: Pre-Unicode substitutions for extended characters live on

2016-10-11 Thread Doug Ewell
Don Osborn wrote: > What are the possibilities of extended keyboard options on mobile > devices for extended Latin characters to facilitate multilingual text > composition? What is current thinking / practice wrt expanding virtual > keyboards? > > This gets beyond Unicode proper to ISO/IEC 9995

Wogb3 j3k3: Pre-Unicode substitutions for extended characters live on

2016-10-11 Thread dzo
Of possible interest - I noted recently the continued use of "3" for "ɛ" in tweets & some web content about a pair of Ghanaian plays whose titles include the Ga language term "Wogbɛ Jɛkɛ." See http:/niamey.blogspot.com/2016/10/wogb-jk-ghanaian-language-input-support.html The problem is input

Re: Implementation of ideographic description characters

2016-10-11 Thread 董福興
The ids extension can dynamically composing parts with ids into a SVG and displayed on media wiki. I know the team implied this function in Taiwan. They are dealing a Taiwanese dictionary contained several Hanzi not encoded into Unicode. Bobby Tung gfb hjjhjh 於 2016年10月11日

Re: Implementation of ideographic description characters

2016-10-11 Thread Philippe Verdy
Actually that extension for now only has data tuned for Traditional Chinese, and does not implement the full set of IDS mappings (not the complete Unicode repertoire), but it contains really many mappings for many IDS strings that have no Unicode encoding. Only very few ideographic sources are

Re: Implementation of ideographic description characters

2016-10-11 Thread Charlie Ruland
This Mediawiki extension reminds me of svghanzi.appspot.com/ . If you don't understand the Russian instructions, read Creating Characters by SVG by John Pasden. gfb hjjhjh wrote:

Re: Implementation of ideographic description characters

2016-10-11 Thread gfb hjjhjh
After some researches, there is already a Mediawiki extension named as ids that do exactly what I asked about. ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Ids) With the only problem is that ⿻is still not yet supported by the system. Now the question is can this extension become something integrated

Re: Why incomplete subscript/superscript alphabet ?

2016-10-11 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2016-10-10, Hans Åberg wrote: > There are others, for example, in Dutch, the letter "v" and in "van" > is pronounced in dialects in continuous variations between [f] and > [v] depending on the timing of the fricative and the following > vowel. Continuous variation is a