Unicode Marches On
It is always good to keep up with Unicode so I found this post on Ken Arnold's blog of interest.
He refers to the newly encoded Shavian alphabet which is a system for writing English invented in memory of George Bernard Shaw. I have just bought an old copy of The Miraculous Birth of Language by R. A. Wilson of the University of Saskatchewan, (yes I have to put in this little plug for Canada) with a preface by G. B. Shaw, where he proposes the invention of a new script for English.
Since Shaw wrote this preface in 1941, it is understandable that he included this comment which I rather like,
More about Shaw and the Shavian alphabet later.
He refers to the newly encoded Shavian alphabet which is a system for writing English invented in memory of George Bernard Shaw. I have just bought an old copy of The Miraculous Birth of Language by R. A. Wilson of the University of Saskatchewan, (yes I have to put in this little plug for Canada) with a preface by G. B. Shaw, where he proposes the invention of a new script for English.
Since Shaw wrote this preface in 1941, it is understandable that he included this comment which I rather like,
I found myself considering seriously, especially when
the German airmen dropped a bomb near enough to
shake my house, whether I had better not end my
days in Vancouver, if not Saskatoon.
More about Shaw and the Shavian alphabet later.
posted by Suzanne McCarthy at 1:57 PM
1 Comments:
Suzanne, you may already be familiar with SIL's NRSI (Non-Roman Script Initiative) and its collaborative efforts with the Unicode consortium (or whatever it is call). Just in case you are not, here is a url from which you can do some rooting around:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=TypeDesignResources
BTW, thanks for answering my question on my blog about how you have gotten Greek characters to display within standard English plain text.
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