RE: Inuit Languages

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 14:59:12 EDT


Clive wrote:

> Certain additional characters are required: For example, the Inpaiq name for
> "Nome" is "Sitnasuaq" with a line through the "n", meaning a form of "ng".

This is representable in Unicode as <006E, 0335>. On the website, they
are showing these characters by using <STRIKE>n</STRIKE> markup.

> The Siberian Yupik (again, a differntiated dialect) probably a Cyrillic
> character or dipthong. GeoNative identifies several Latin characters used
> with lines through them or carons, see:
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/inupiaq.html .

g with dot above: <0067, 0307>

x with circumflex: <0078, 0302>

g with circumflex: <0067, 0302> = U+011D

And so on...

> They also have a Unicode
> cross reference table at
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9860/asr22.html

The problem here is that they are assuming HTML is Latin-1, and have
their hacked up representation, "Alphabet Street Representation", to
deal with non-Latin-1 accented Latin characters ("s<" for s-hacek, and
so on). It would be nice if they updated this to move forward to
UTF-8, in which case they could do away with most of the hacks.

--Ken



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