Comments on: Shavian

By: One more effort if you would be spelling reformers › Voyou Desoeuvre

One more effort if you would be spelling reformers › Voyou Desoeuvre — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:07:04 +0000

[...] this post on a translating (or transliterating, I guess) the GNOME desktop to Shavian, I’ve been reading this [...]

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:59:23 +0000

@Kevin: sure, will do. This nicely demonstrates my point about stress-testing for Unicode. :)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:57:47 +0000

I don’t speak nor can read the language but nice job nonetheless. Just wanted to point out that you should probably file a bug (Pango?) for the link in the about dialog. The alignment of the underline is offset in the translation versus English characters

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:58:08 +0000

Nice idea :).. And thanks for the interesting link to the page of Justin B Rye!

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:40:30 +0000

@Voyou: Not particularly. I was kind of joking about the Pittsburgh part, except for the extent to which US and UK English are different dialects as a whole. It doesn’t matter at all whether people in Pittsburgh and York realise a word in the same way, so long as they are doing so with the same phonemes. And by and large, they are. Even if they weren’t, the system we use now is attempting to represent a prestige pronunciation; it’s just making a worse job of it.

http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ortho.html#two might interest you.

By: James Henstridge

James Henstridge — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:53:54 +0000

I wonder if the problem you saw with WordPress is shared by all characters outside the basic multilingual plane?

By: Voyou Desoeuvre

Voyou Desoeuvre — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:32:17 +0000

Cool! And, reading the article on your other site made me realize I don’t have a Shavian font installed, something I’ll have to rectify. But, doesn’t:

“Besides, we’re already using Pittsburgh pronunciation because of the use of the CMU dictionary.”

demonstrate why phonetic spelling reform is a fundamentally wrong-headed idea?

By: Edantes

Edantes — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:39:22 +0000

Cool! And, well…I can’t read the language, but I can tell that the hinting for that font looks awful. :-)

By: Trochee

Trochee — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:30:53 +0000

I hope you’ll mention these unicode bugs to WordPress. grr.

still hoping to get the fonts thing working but haven’t tried very hard.