Re: Inuktitut characters in Unicode

From: Michel Bottin (michel.bottin@culture.fr)
Date: Mon Sep 13 1999 - 07:10:53 EDT

Doug Ewell wrote:

> I'm looking for a reference to the Unicode encoding of the 60 or so
> most commonly cited syllabic characters used in the Inuktitut language.
>
> I know Canadian Syllabics are encoded in the block U+1400 to U+167F, but
> I can't tell just from the character names in UnicodeData-3.0.0.beta.txt
> which are the 'typical' characters and which are not. Even with a
> glyph chart, it might be tough to pick the correct 60 from a block of
> 640 characters.

Have a glimpse at

http://www.culture.fr/edm/

and pursue with "Choisissez:"/"inuktitut", then "Caractéristiques techniques"

>
>
> The characters I have in mind are depicted in a chart at
> http://colourlab.com/arctic/inuktitut.htm.
>
> I'm hoping someone like Michael Everson might have a reference to this.
>
> -Doug 

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