[ILUG] Ogham on linux

[Michael Watterson]

David Golden wrote:
> Hey. Cool.  I installed a unicode font with the ogham characters
> defined, set my xkb keymap to "ie(ogham)" (KDE has a GUI for this, 
> presumably GNOME does too), and I can type in ogham with AltGr+letter
> in unicode apps...
>
> ᚛ ᚁᚂᚃᚄᚅ ᚆᚇᚈᚉᚊ ᚋᚌᚍᚎᚏ ᚐᚑᚒᚓᚔ ᚕᚖᚗᚘᚙ ᚚ ᚜
>
> keymap of the above* (though N.B. not the Ogham letter's sound
> value in all cases) is AltGr+
>
>   
>> /BLFSN/HDTCQ/MGVZR/AOUEI/WKJYX/P/<
>>     
>
> * Assuming I or the list server didn't screw up the encoding of 
> this mail - n.b. if you see a row of square boxes in your unicode 
> mail reader (most GUI ones these days), I mightn't have messed up
> the encoding, you just mightn't have a font with ogham in it.
>  
>   
Works in IRC but not Skype, oddly.

Normally though it would be vertical.

Yes, I'm I've seen it on Gnome. But wondered who would use it. There are 
probably more people that speak Kingon and Sindarin than Old Irish. Even 
Modern Irish is outnumbered by Chinese speakers actually in Ireland, So 
presumably Chinese Key input methods are more important in Ireland.

-- 
Mike