On 07/10/16 07:42, Denis Jacquerye wrote:
In may case people resort to these hacks because it is an easier short term
solution. All they have to do is use a specific font. They don't have to
switch or find and install a keyboard layout and they don't have to upgrade
to an OS that supports their script with Unicode properly. Because of these
sort term solutions it's hard for a switch to Unicode to gain proper
momentum. Unfortunately, not everybody sees the long term benefit, or often
they see it but cannot do it practically.
Too often Unicode compliant fonts or keyboard layouts have been lacking or
at least have taken much longer to be implemented.
One could wonder if a technical group for keyboards layouts would help this
process.
What might also help is a reconceptualization of these hacks as being in
effect non-standard character encodings: the existing software
infrastructure for handling charsets could then be co-opted to convert
them to (and possibly from) Unicode if desired.
Neil
