It seems that Mr Zainuddin has given up on using the traditional Lontara script due to a simple technical problem, which could probably be solved very easily.
Anybody with the latest version of Code2000 and Firefox should be able to see the special characters on http://bug.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The only problem with it is that one of the vowels is placed incorrectly -- after a character when it is supposed to be before. However, this should be easily solved using Uniscribe. If not, I would hope it's possible to make some sort of hack so that it can use proper Unicode and _also_ display properly.
Mark
On 24/10/05, Dori slowpoke@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/24/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
muhammad zaid zainuddin wrote:
Dear wikitech developers,
First of all, we (me and my friends whoe're agree to work on buginese wikipedia) are terribly sorry for this change. It should be before the creation of the domain but turn out that most of our pc (even me) cannot display the fonts in the edit box. Therefore, we'd like to cancel the unicode input/writings for our edit box as well as our display and change to standard wikipedia like enlish/ malay/ indonesian wikis (means that all will be in roman, no unicode like english wiki). This problem actually occurred before the creation of the domain but I kind of busy that time and forget to tell wikitech's. However we'd like wikitech to keep the font family of lontara. We will be needing it for the future. Again, we're terribly-terribly sorry for this messed up.
I don't understand what this means? All Wikipedias are Unicode, including English.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I think he means the script that people have chosen to use not understanding that they could choose to use something else.
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