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Change: An informative page from E-MELD with sections on (a) adding characters to Unicode, (b) precomposed forms (letters made up of a base character + one or more diacritic, and why these are not in Unicode), and (c) IPA and Unicode.How to Get Involved in ISO Standards DevelopmentThis
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Aug 29 2009, 2:17 PM EDT
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Change: on such an image, so one can'twon't searchbe forable to locate f “ʈ” in the HTML document.In the PDF version of the same text, a non-Unicode font has been used for the “ʈ”. At first glance, the “ʈ” appears fine in the PDF: However,
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Aug 29 2009, 2:15 PM EDT
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Change: http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn19/This is a set of guidelines for linguists who are devising orthographies, so the orthography can be accessible to users on computers.How to Get Involved in ISO Standards Development This document also includes a short section on how to get involved in the development of the Unicode Standard
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Aug 29 2009, 12:38 PM EDT
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Change: http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/Recommendations on the Development of New Orthographies:Orthographies: http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn19/This is a set of guidelines for linguists who are devising orthographies, based onso the recommendations of aorthography numbercan ofbe Unicodeaccessible Technicalto Directors.computers.How to Get Involved in ISO Standards Development
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Aug 28 2009, 7:14 PM EDT
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Change: Resources:ISO Script Codes (ISO 15924): http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/Recommendations on the developmentDevelopment of newNew orthographies:Orthographies: http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn19/ This is a set of guidelines for linguists who are devising orthographies, based on the recommendations of a number of Unicode Technical Directors.How to Get Involved in ISO Standards Development,
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Aug 28 2009, 3:27 PM EDT
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Change: A valuable general resource guide for finding Unicode-enabled tools, especially for linguists, is the SIL website (http://scripts.sil.org/IPAhome). The listing below is not comprehensive, but is only intended to provide a few reliable webpages withwhich provide tools and tools.other useful information on Unicode-enabled products.FontsMost
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Aug 28 2009, 3:21 PM EDT
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Change: (The HTML version has been enlarged to show the text.) Unfortunately, it is not possible to search on the images in the HTML document itself, or by doing a “Google” search across the Internet, so one can't search for “ʈ” in the document.In the PDF version
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Aug 28 2009, 3:18 PM EDT
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Change: “ʈ”. (The HTML version has been enlarged to show the text.) Unfortunately, it is not possible to search on the images in the HTML document itself, or by doing a “Google” search across the Internet, so one can't search for “ʈ” in the document.In the PDF
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Aug 28 2009, 3:12 PM EDT
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Change: The listing below is not comprehensive, but is only intended to provide a few reliable webpages to which other resources are linked.FontsMost core fonts that come with recent operating systems are Unicode-based, but they may not include all the special characters required by linguists. The listing
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Aug 28 2009, 12:42 PM EDT
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Change: :Keyboard info from SIL: http://scripts.sil.org/UniIPAKeyboardKeyboards and Inputting Tips from E-MELD: http://linguistlist.org/cfdocs/emeld/school/classroom/unicode/ipafont.htm IPA Keyboards for the PC from the Speech, Hearing, and Phonetic Sciences Dept., University College London: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/phonetics/Other Standards and Useful Resources:ISO Script Codes (ISO 15924): http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/Recommendations on the development of new orthographies: http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn19/,
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Aug 28 2009, 12:10 PM EDT
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Change: : theseThese enable users to select the letters or symbols they wish, and cut and paste them into their documents http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/Keyboards and Inputting Methods:Keyboard info from SIL: http://scripts.sil.org/UniIPAKeyboardKeyboards and Inputting Tips from E-MELD: http://linguistlist.org/cfdocs/emeld/school/classroom/unicode/ipafont.htmOther Standards and Useful Resources:ISO Script Codes (ISO 15924): http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/
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Aug 28 2009, 11:41 AM EDT
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Change: If an elderly linguist were to die and leave his data (which he had keyed in with his own non-standard font) on his hard-drive, it
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Aug 28 2009, 11:16 AM EDT
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Change: has been overlaid on the dagger character. (In a similar way, many old Greek fonts would put the lowercase alpha on top codepointof Latin "a" in the documentfont, lowercase beta on top of "b", etc. To search for alpha, one had to search on the Latin letter
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Change: Renamed from ReasonsforUsingUnicode by Aug 28 2009, 10:28 AM EDT for: Rename
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Aug 28 2009, 1:56 AM EDT
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Change: Internet, so a search for “ʈ” and “Arrernte” together in the search box will not result in a hit on this article.Internet.In the PDF version of the same text, a non-Unicode font has been used for the apico-post-alveolar. At first glance, it appears fine in the PDF:
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Aug 28 2009, 1:51 AM EDT
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Change: U+0288), because the actual Unicode codepoint in the document is for U+2020 DAGGER. If one copies and pastes the letter from the PDF into a Unicode-compliant word-processing document, it appears as a dagger.The above example demonstrates that using a non-Unicode font
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Aug 28 2009, 1:16 AM EDT
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Change: for searchingwhen anddoing display.searching. Using images for missing letters or symbols also present a problem. The following example comes from the article “A Preliminary Study of Jaw Movement in Arrernte Consonant Production” by Marija Tabaina (Journal of the International Phonetic Association 2009, 39:
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Aug 28 2009, 1:10 AM EDT
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Change: NOTE: Some letter plus diacritic combinations are not in Unicode because they can already be represented with encoded characters (that is, the base letter plus the combining marks). If, after looking through the codecharts at http://www.unicode.org/charts/ you believe the language you are working
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Change: The font used for the PDF has put the letter for “ʈ“(LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH RETROFLEX HOOK, U+0288) in the spot that is properly
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Jul 18 2009, 7:27 PM EDT
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Change: non-Unicode fonts)"Character pickers": these enable users to select the letters or symbols they wish, and cut and paste them into their documents: http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/Keyboards: : http://scripts.sil.org/UniIPAKeyboardOther Standards:Standards and Useful Resources:ISO Script Codes (ISO 15924): http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/Recommendations on the development of new orthographies: http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn19/,
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