Talk:Gaelic script
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[edit] New article
Be patient as I clean up the pictures and all. Obviously I took this over from Fraktur (typeface). Evertype 15:55, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- Nice work! – Kaihsu 10:10, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Insular letters
Angr, there are going to be some more insular letters added to Unicode, yes. Evertype 15:43, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
- Cool! Does Unicode provide different codes for "long r" and regular r? (Long s I know about.) User:Angr 16:47, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
- There's U+017F ſ LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S and U+027C ɼ LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH LONG LEG. But what is proposed is capital and small insular D, F, G, R, S, and T, plus capital and small turned insular G, capital and small turned L, and capital turned A. Evertype 18:37, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] dh, ch etc. in old typeface?
In both text samples (fig. 1 and 2) there are both letters with dot above and the corresponding digraphs with h. Is this supposed to be correct? I thought that in a real old typeface you should only use the combinations with dots, though I see that the old font is very decorative and therefore probably often used with the new orthography – but one should certainly not mix up h- and dot-spellings, or is there a reason for this? --Daniel Bunčić (de wiki · talk · en contrib.) 20:04, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
- The sample shows the use of Gaelic script in modern Irish orthography as well as traditional Irish orthography. It's OK to mix them in a sample text. -- Evertype·✆ 07:48, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
I agree that this is okay, my question was really for information, not criticism. But maybe all the same one could make it a bit clearer in the text that there are two orthographies in the sample? --Daniel Bunčić (de wiki · talk · en contrib.) 17:28, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] From Gaelic to Roman
Would anyone have the knowledge to make a section about the changeover from Gaelic to Roman script? For example, why did it happen, who made it happen, where there economic or political reasons for this, was its changeover controversial? It appears to be a big issue in books by Irish scholars, for example Regina Uí Chollatáins book An Claidheamh Soluis agus Fáinne an Lae 1899-1932.
Frainc 11:50, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
