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

2016-10-16 Thread Marcel Schneider
On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 14:25:34 -0400, Mark E. Shoulson wrote: > I have the rare good fortune to see John Cowan on a near-daily basis > (except this month, with all the Jewish Holidays); I'll forward your > message on. Thank you. On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 12:25:27 -0600, Doug Ewell wrote: > Marcel

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

2016-10-16 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
I have the rare good fortune to see John Cowan on a near-daily basis (except this month, with all the Jewish Holidays); I'll forward your message on. ~mark On 10/16/2016 01:08 PM, Marcel Schneider wrote: On 11 Oct 2016 09:48:00 -0700, Doug Ewell wrote: […] You mentioned mobile devices, but

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

2016-10-16 Thread Marcel Schneider
I guess that Moby Latin is now being reengineered, see: http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/sracan/Whacking/MobyLatinKeyboard.html#vietnamese «These assignments are considered temporary, and will be reconsidered when the Microsoft program used to generate Moby Latin can handle serial dead keys.»

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

2016-10-16 Thread Marcel Schneider
On 11 Oct 2016 09:48:00 -0700, Doug Ewell wrote: […] > > You mentioned mobile devices, but also mentioned ISO/IEC 9995 and 14755, > which seem to deal primarily with computer keyboards. > > On Windows, John Cowan's Moby Latin keyboard [1] allows the input of > more than 800 non-ASCII characters,

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

2016-10-14 Thread Marcel Schneider
On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:52:20 +, Don Osborn wrote: […] > > The problem is input systems, not availability of fonts as it once was. > Keyboard > layouts exist for Ga and other Ghanaian languages, and these enable typing > needed > extended Latin characters. But a number of them, including

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

2016-10-12 Thread Marcel Schneider
On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:52:20 +, dzo_at_bisharat.net wrote: > 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 >

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