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Installing Unicode Fonts Please See the Welcome Page at for a List of Unicode Font Recommendations Using the FirstVoices Skidegate Haida Keyboard The keyboard described here has been designed for the Skidegate Haida language, so that all of the special characters required by the language can be easily typed on your PC or Mac. It is hoped that this keyboard system will encourage the use of the language on computers, both for print and web publishing, as well as internet correspondence and emails. The Skidegate Haida language requires a number of characters which are not available on the standard English keyboard, but these letters do have standard Unicode values. Unicode is a numbering system by which computers index writing systems. To accommodate Skidegate Haida’s extra letters, some of the standard keys have been given new values, or modified so that they also function as accent keys. The accompanying Keyboard Map explains what additions have been made. To type these characters, you must install a keyboard driver – a program which reorganises how your physical keyboard works – as well as a Unicode font. Please follow the installation instructions below to set up your computer to type in Skidegate Haida. For some Unicode characters to appear at all, you must be using Windows NT/2000/XP or Mac 10.2 Jaguar or 10.3 Panther. Earlier PC and Mac operating systems do not support Unicode technology sufficiently. Installing Unicode Fonts Please see the welcome page at www.firstvoices.com for a list of Unicode font recommendations. Windows installation procedure (XP) Click on Start > Control Panel on the taskbar at the bottom left of your desktop. Select “Fonts” from the Control Panel. From the drop-down menus, choose File > Install New Font. Find the Unicode font you wish to instal in the folder or drive where the font file is located. Highlight the font and click OK. The font should now be available in any Windows application. Mac installation procedure New fonts must be installed in the Fonts folder, inside the Library folder on your hard drive. 1 Installing the Windows Skidegate Haida Keyboard 1.To write the Skidegate Haida language on your Windows computer, you need to install the Skidegate Haida FirstVoices Keyman keyboard software. This program re-assigns the values of the keys on your keyboard, so that the special characters and accents used in the language can be typed. This Skidegate Haida keyboard software is available for global distribution under a special licensing agreement between FirstVoices and Tavultesoft, the creators of Keyman Software. Follow the instructions below to install the Skidegate Haida FirstVoices Keyman keyboard on your PC. 2.The Skidegate Haida keyboard is installed using the file: skidegate.exe (Keyman executable) – assuming you do not already have a different FirstVoices Keyman keyboard installed on your system. The following is an installation walk through: • Screen 1) Tavultesoft Keyman Setup. Click Install. • Screen 2) Welcome. Click Next. • Screen 3) License. First make sure the Accept this license box is checked, and then click Next. • Screen 4) Installation Directory. Unless you wish the Keyman files to be located in some specific directory, accept the default and click Next. • Screen 5) Setup Complete. Two check boxes are on this screen: the first, Start Keyman Immediately is self explanatory, the second, Start Keyman with Windows means that every time you turn on your computer, Keyman–and consequently the Skidegate Haida keyboard–will load automatically. 3.If you have a FirstVoices Keyman keyboard already installed on your computer, contact FirstVoices for a copy of the file skidegate.kmp. 4.If you have the standard Tavultesoft version of Keyman (i.e. not FirstVoices Keyman), you may still install the FirstVoices Skidegate Haida keyboard. Note that there will now be two separate versions of Keyman on your computer; one will not interfere with the other, however you may only be running one version at a time. A FirstVoices keyboard cannot be installed onto the standard version of Keyman. 5.The keyboards can be turned on and off at will by either left clicking the icon and choosing the Skidegate Haida keyboard or No Keyman Keyboard (which will revert to English or whatever language keyboard is the default on your machine). You can also set up hotkeys to switch between keyboards more quickly. This can be done on the Keyman configuration box, which can be accessed by right clicking the icon. 2 Installing the Mac Skidegate Haida Keyboard The following instructions are for Macs using the 10.2 Jaguar and 10.3 Panther operating systems only: 1. Double click the Hard Drive icon, then open the Library folder. 2. Drag the file skidegate.keylayout into the Keyboard Layouts folder. Save and quit all of the applications currently running, as the keyboard will not be available until the next time you run a given program. To be sure, a reboot of the system will make the keyboard accessible. 3. Open your computer’s System Preferences. Under the Personal header, click on the International icon and select Input Menu. In the list of flags, find Skidegate Haida beside a keyboard icon. Check the button beside the Skidegate Haida keyboard icon. Skidegate Haida Keyboard Assignments The following keys have been given additional duties so that they may type special Haida letters. • The equals key = when typed before a letter produces an underline accent. = · k > ḵ = · G > = · x > 3 Unicode and the Skidegate Haida language What is Unicode? Unicode is neither a font nor a keyboard. It is instead a map or chart of (what will one day be) all of the characters, letters, symbols, punctuation marks, etc. necessary for writing all of the world's languages past and present. The keyboard follows the standard Unicode encoding. Each character (i.e. letter, number, punctuation, etc.) has been given a number. Thus the letter capital S is coded “53”, and the numeral 9 is “39”. These codes are standard across the internet, no matter what type of computer or operating system you may be using. If you have ever tried typing in a non-English language, you may recall memorising a set of numbers that signify accented letters. So that alt-130 is é, and alt-160 is á. This numbering system is called ASCII, which has been with us since the DOS days. A later mapping called ANSI, expanded on ASCII giving us capital versions of the accented letters Á Ó, and a few extra glyphs for western European languages. Unicode expands the repertoire of characters, providing enough space for at least 96,382 different symbols. Like the above two systems, each character is given a number, so that the glottal stop “ʔ” is 660, and the slashed-l “ł” is “322”. Note that all Unicode numbers are hexadecimal, meaning that one counts by 16’s not 10’s, not a problem as users really don’t need to know the mapping numbers anyway. So, although not totally comprehensive, Unicode covers most of the world’s writing systems. Most importantly, the mapping is consistent, so that any user anywhere on any computer has the same encoding as everyone else. Which computers can use Unicode? Basically, as far as Windows goes, only NT, 2000, and XP take advantage of Unicode. In these operating systems, it is possible to read, type, print, etc. using Unicode mappings, providing of course that you have the appropriate font and keyboard drivers. The 95, 98, me Windows versions do allow users to view Unicode, with up to date web browsers. For the purposes of this keyboard, Mac users should be running 10.2 Jaguar and 10.3 Panther operating systems. 4 Unicode Limitations First, Unicode is simply a map, it is not a font, nor is it software that you can install on your computer. Programs, applications, and operating systems are either Unicode-friendly or not (or somewhere in between). If you have just bought a new computer running Windows XP for example, some of the characters used by your language may still be unavailable as you have not installed a font which contains all of the required symbols. A select few fonts do contain the full spectrum of letters used for Skidegate Haida: such as languagegeek’s Aboriginal (Serif and Sans), Arial MS Unicode, and Titus Cyberbit. Second, Unicode is inconsistent with regards to which symbols get unique codes, and which do not. All of the accented letters of the European languages have their own code (e.g. Ő is 0150), but First Nations’ languages’ letters, like have to be made up from two codes, 70 (p) and 0313 (combining apostrophe). In some cases, such as w̓, notice that the accent may not be placed very well. Depending on the font, this may produce an unattractive look. This is because the combining apostrophe character was not specifically designed to go atop the p, instead the same apostrophe is to be used over every letter: e.g. m̓ and Q̓. This factor is hugely important for languages using an underlined g, . In most if not all Unicode fonts, the underline gets lost inside the base of the g (e.g. g̠̱̱), rendering it virtually identical to the plain g. Finally, Unicode is not complete. Several languages have yet to be encoded, and others are only partially complete. The natural languages which are not yet encoded will be added presently, as research determines which glyphs are necessary. In the rare cases where a First Nation’s language uses letters which are not in Unicode, the following choice was made. Where a language has a character: e.g. ktunaxa’s double-barred l, , which looks similar to one used by a different language: the Khoisan letter ǂ, the latter has been substituted.
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