Re: Creating a New locale

[Thomas Thurman <tthurman gnome org>]

Ysgrifennodd Fanen Ahua:
> I think I'll go ahead and create a new locale for this language. The
> link you gave me led me to a useful guide for creating my locale.
> However, I'm a bit unsure about what character map to use. could you
> please advise? We use accented characters, but not too many. ô, an
> "underlined 'o'" and an "underlined 'e'" are the most common. I suspect
> I will have to find existent substitutes for the "underlined" letters,
> but based on this information, what charmap would you suggest?

There are some possible combining marks in Unicode which can be used
for the underlining; I don't know which is conventionally used in Tiv
orthography:

U+0331 COMBINING MACRO BELOW: fe̱ed fo̱od
U+0332 COMBINING LOW LINE: fe̲ed fo̲od

In case email programs mangle these, I've put them in a web page:
http://www.gnome.org/~tthurman/underlined.html

So you can do this if you use UTF-8, at least.

Thomas