Karen Language Representation in Unicode

[Heath Batterham]

I would like to discuss the possibility of adding letters from the Karen alphabet to the Burmese script block in unicode. It is my intention to begin authorship of a Karen education syllabus and to do this I need the foundations of a universal writing code. Mr Christian Bauer appears to have done some work in this area and I would welcome communication with him and other people who may have done some work in this area. The second interest I have is in the development of word processing tools that utilize the contents of unicode. I use a Macintosh with OSX installed. The basic language packages are very good but they do not have the Burmese script included. I would like to develop a writing tool that is similar to the Japanese ことえりwhere phonetics are typed in and drop down windows offer suggested scripts or fonts. I may be contacted via email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I look forward to further communications. regards Heath Batterham