Template talk:Table Oghamletters

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These symbols are not displaying on Windows PCs, even at Windows XP. There is a great big hole in the Arial Unicode font, which is supposed to be Microsoft's full implementation of the Unicode glyph repertoire.

One can only hope that influence can be brought to bear on Micorosoft's "localisation"/"internationalisation" team in Ireland to rectify the "oversight"! --Red King 23:19, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

I've tried installing Code2001 as per Template talk:Unicode but no luck. Is there a freeware font that supports ogham?

[edit] Normalized spellings

I OBJECT to the normalization of spellings to Old Irish. In Ireland when the letternames were being standardized for Unicode, the names were normalized, in consultation with a wide variety of experts and those names are what were settled upon. I will revert the recent changes. Evertype 01:39, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Peith

I never claimed Peith was a "modern invention". It predates AD 1400. It is also clearly the youngest letter listed here, probably post-dating 1100. Listing Peith as the only letter on top of the 25 "manuscript tradition" letters is somewhat of an "Unicode fixation". At least supernumerary letters (above the standard 25) should be listed apart from the classical 5 forfeda. Luckily, there is room left, so Peith, if we must have it, has its a column to itself until we add yet more late letters. dab (ᛏ) 15:18, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

I really don't think this adds anything. "Classical forfeda"? Give us a break. Peith is listed among the forfeda when it is listed. I think the change you made makes the template worse, and I think it should be reverted. Evertype 21:42, 19 January 2006 (UTC)