Re: Yoruba Keyboard

[African Oracle]

The formatted look good Peter but how many users will be able to format and
bump the size? This is just the beginning, I know with time things will
regularise itself. Better software and font rendering engine will be
produced.

Thanks for the screen shot.

Regards

Dele

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Constable" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:31 PM
Subject: RE: Yoruba Keyboard


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> > This mail is written with the Yoruba Keyboard that was rolled out
yetserday.
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> > Please just look at the issue raised earlier raised.
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> I produced the following screen shot after simply reformatting the text in
your message with a font designed to support languages like Yoruba:
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> This was formatted with Doulos SIL. (I also bumped up the size to make it
clearer what is or isnât happening typographically.) If you are using
Outlook 2003 or another mail client with OpenType support and simply obtain
the font for yourself
(http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=FontDownloa
dsDoulos), or use another appropriately-designed font, then you should be
able to see the original text working as desired on your own system:
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> > ÃÃáÌÃÃÃ
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> > Looking at the above it is obvious that the acute on top of the e and o
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> > dot below is a bit too high almost to the point of looking like a
cedilla
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> > under E.
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> What is obvious is that you are trying to solve a problem using fonts that
arenât up to the task. This is purely a font/rendering issue, not an
encoding issue.
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> > In transit the acute and the grave could be removed by just putting the
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> > cursor in between áÌ and áÌ because ther are combined in a way that is
not
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> > It even becomes a compounded problem during copying and pasting because
the
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> > accent occupy two cursor space. I still think with all these
observations
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> In actual practice, none of these are problems. I can copy and paste
portions of your text with no problem: áÌÃÃ.
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> Peter
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> Peter Constable
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> Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
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> Microsoft Windows Division
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