Re: Are we need a gothic English keyboard layout?

Wed, 27 Aug 2014 03:26:00 -0700 

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <[email protected]> writes:

> On Aug 26, 2014, at 22:39, Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi-Angel <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>>> Officially it is called Β«Bold fraktur lettersΒ», position in Unicode
>>> U1D56C-U1D59F (𝕴𝖋 π–žπ–”π–š 𝖉𝖔𝖓'𝖙 π–˜π–Šπ–Š π–™π–π–Š π–•π–π–—π–†π–˜π–Š π–Žπ–“ π–™π–π–Š π–‡π–—π–†π–ˆπ–Šπ–˜ π–™π–π–Šπ–“ π–žπ–”π–š'π–—π–Š
>>> π–˜π–ˆπ–—π–Šπ–œπ–Šπ–‰ β€” π–™π–π–Žπ–˜ π–‘π–Šπ–™π–™π–Šπ–—π–˜ π–Žπ–“ π–™π–π–Š π–˜π–™π–†π–“π–‰π–†π–—π–™ π–˜π–Žπ–“π–ˆπ–Š 2001 π–žπ–Šπ–†π–—). Right now I
>>> made it up from one of an unused by me layouts of the
>>> Β«/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/Β» directory. But I think I could dig into
>>> it, and make a full keyboard layout if there is a chance that you're
>>> accept it.
>>> So, the question is: are you need this layout? Personally I think that
>>> it looks very beautiful, and since all over the internet using the
>>> Unicode, no would be a problems with a symbols encoding. I think we
>>> need it.
>> 
>> So what you want this for is to write english text (or possibly another
>> language that is usually written with roman letters), but you want the
>> styling of the characters to use the type face "fraktur"? Then really,
>> this is logically completely wrong. What you end up with is a sequence
>> of mathematical symbols that is pure nonsense rather than the english
>> sentence you thought you were writing.
>> 
>> The choice of "fraktur" rather than "times", "courier" or "arial" should
>> not change the representation of the text itself. Consider how painful
>> it would be if every search on google would only give you results where
>> the text was using the specific font you were searching with.
>
> FYI, while the general point is valid, your specific example using Google is 
> off.  Google handles this, but bing doesn't.
>
> --Jeremy

Heh, true. I actually discovered that when I tested a korean input
method and google returned results for the sequence of letters that
would have been typed if I had been in qwerty mode instead.

eirik
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