Re: OT: Devanagari question

2000-11-14 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 08:22:21AM -0800, D.V. Henkel-Wallace wrote: Sadly, it seems unlikely that any furture change or adoption of orthography will use characters not already supported by the then major computer systems. In fact the trend seems to be the other way, viz Spain's changing

Re: OT: Devanagari question

2000-11-14 Thread John Cowan
"D.V. Henkel-Wallace" wrote: For a minority language (which all remaining unwritten languages are) the pressure will be strong to use existing combinations (since they won't constitute a large enough community for people to write special rendering support). OTOH minority languages have

Lakota (was Re: OT: Devanagari question)

2000-11-14 Thread Rick McGowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, there's no corresponding LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LONG RIGHT LEG, which Lakota needs. To my knowledge, the discussion in September between John Cowan and Curtis Clark didn't terminate with any actual proposal, and I'm not clear on whether the above