Thanks, Rick. The Tifinagh proposal did indeed come up there and was discussed a bit (it's a small list). The discussion documents page you mention, however, did not, so I'll pass that on.
The announcement of the font (& keyboard layout) for the Latin-based trascription of Tamazight is an example I think of the great things a lot of groups we never heard of before can do (or attempt) with Unicode. It is also an example, in a small way, of the kind of pitfalls that they can run into - referring here to the mixing of Greek and Latin characters in what they use for Tamazight. Tamazight, and other Berber languages/dialects, can be and are written in Tifinagh, Arabic, and Latin scripts. A very nice summary is given by Lameen Souag at http://www.geocities.com/lameens/tifinagh/ Thanks again and all the best! Don Osborn Bisharat.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick McGowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 9:45 PM Subject: Re: Tr.: Unicode Fonts and Keyboard Drivers for Tamazight > Those interested in Tamazight might also be interested to know there has > been some preliminary work to encode it in Unicode. Copies of the > discussion documents are here: > > http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1757.pdf > http://www.unicode.org/~rick/03076-tifinagh-discussion.pdf > > Perhaps people at [EMAIL PROTECTED] might be interested in > these. We invite discussion and feedback. > > Rick > > > From: "Don Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2003-07-27 05:07:35 -0700 > > > > FYI, a new application of Unicode for Tamazight (Latin-based > > transcription). It has already been noted that they used Greek > > characters in several instances (gamma, open-e, and their capitals) > > rather than extended Latin characters. > > > > Don Osborn > > Bisharat.net > > > > --- Dans [EMAIL PROTECTED], "asprot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a > > écrit : > > Hello, > > > > For those interested in Unicode Fonts for the Tamazight language of > > northern Africa, we recommend the site AGHLAN : > > > > http://site.voila.fr/aghlan > > > > You may download from the web page : > > > > http://site.voila.fr/aghlan/ZUFonts.htm > > > > Unicode fonts for the (latin and maybe soon tifinagh) transcription > > of Tamazight as well as keyboard drivers for the Windows XP OS which > > supports Unicode standards. You might notice that we use the [²] key > > on the french keyboard to invoke Tamazight's diacritic letters. > > > > Greetings to all. > > --- Fin du message transféré --- > > > > >
