Skeena Indigenous Typeface
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Skeena Indigenous Typeface
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Re: Skeena Indigenous Typeface
#2Some of the history of Unicode here is interesting, and addresses questions I've long had, for example in the sections "Precomposed vs decomposed" and "Greek vs Latin". Also, the fuller descriptions (than in Unicode's documentation) of 'confusable' characters.
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#3> The form of the ogonek derives from a mediaeval scribal sign, the e caudata, and in European typography it follows the conventional writing of that sign in how it attaches to various vowel letters: [pic]
> In North American indigenous use, positioning of the ogonek is informed by typewriter output, in which the backspaced sign was centered below the preceding letter. This positioning is retained in the typography of these languages [...]
“We're so blinded by hate against Europeans we're going to repeat the limitation of another settler-originated technology just to make things different than everyone else.”
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#4This article went much deeper than I was expecting. Wow. I always wondered what native peoples alphabets looked like since the Latin alphabet was imposed on them by colonialists. Fascinating.
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#5Encoding typeface in the unicode prior to placement of diacritics either in Greek or German should assert apostrophe marks in the U+ variation.
Guess how many there are in a closed 64 bit ASCII language.
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#6> The form of the ogonek derives from a mediaeval scribal sign, the e caudata, and in European typography it follows the conventional writing of that sign in how it attaches to various vowel letters: [pic] > In North American indigenous use, positioning of the ogonek is informed by typewriter output, in which the backspaced sign was centered below the preceding letter. This positioning is retained in the typography o…
> “We're so blinded by hate against Europeans we're going to repeat the limitation of another settler-originated technology just to make things different than everyone else.”
Of all the ways to interpret the article, this is certainly one of them, but don't you think it's a bit of a stretch?
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#7> The form of the ogonek derives from a mediaeval scribal sign, the e caudata, and in European typography it follows the conventional writing of that sign in how it attaches to various vowel letters: [pic] > In North American indigenous use, positioning of the ogonek is informed by typewriter output, in which the backspaced sign was centered below the preceding letter. This positioning is retained in the typography o…
> “We're so blinded by hate against Europeans we're going to repeat the limitation of another settler-originated technology just to make things different than everyone else.” Of all the ways to interpret the article, this is certainly one of them, but don't you think it's a bit of a stretch?
Maybe a bit. I just got triggered by the newspeak.
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#8> The form of the ogonek derives from a mediaeval scribal sign, the e caudata, and in European typography it follows the conventional writing of that sign in how it attaches to various vowel letters: [pic] > In North American indigenous use, positioning of the ogonek is informed by typewriter output, in which the backspaced sign was centered below the preceding letter. This positioning is retained in the typography o…
Does this now hold the record for being the smallest thing possible that someone's been triggered by?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> “We're so blinded by hate against Europeans we're going to repeat the limitation of another settler-originated technology just to make things different than everyone else.” Of all the ways to interpret the article, this is certainly one of them, but don't you think it's a bit of a stretch?
Maybe a bit. I just got triggered by the newspeak.
I don't see any "newspeak" in the part you quoted? (Jargon does not count)
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#10This article went much deeper than I was expecting. Wow. I always wondered what native peoples alphabets looked like since the Latin alphabet was imposed on them by colonialists. Fascinating.
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