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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: Are we need a gothic English keyboard layout?
From:       Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen <eirik () opera ! com>
Date:       2014-08-27 10:24:45
Message-ID: 87tx4ymdqq.fsf () trittico ! users ! oslo ! osa
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Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu@gmail.com> writes:

> On Aug 26, 2014, at 22:39, Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen <eirik@opera.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi-Angel <hiangel999@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Officially it is called  «Bold fraktur letters », position in Unicode
> > > U1D56C-U1D59F (ð•´ð–‹ ð–žð–”ð–š ð–‰ð–”ð–“'ð–™ ð–˜ð–Šð–Š \
> > > ð–™ð–ð–Š ð–•ð–ð–—ð–†ð–˜ð–Š ð–Žð–“ ð–™ð–ð–Š \
> > > ð–‡ð–—ð–†ð–ˆð–Šð–˜ ð–™ð–ð–Šð–“ ð–žð–”ð–š'ð–—ð–Š \
> > > ð–˜ð–ˆð–—ð–Šð–œð–Šð–‰ — ð–™ð–ð–Žð–˜ ð–‘ð–Šð–™ð–™ð–Šð–—ð–˜ \
> > > ð–Žð–“ ð–™ð–ð–Š ð–˜ð–™ð–†ð–“ð–‰ð–†ð–—ð–™ ð–˜ð–Žð–“ð–ˆð–Š \
> > > 2001 ð–žð–Šð–†ð–—). Right now I made it up from one of an unused by me \
> > > layouts of the «/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ » 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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