Re: Scottish Gaelic (gd) localisation

> Is there a specific reason you mention them in this order? I usually try
> to sort alphabetically or in order of frequency if it is obvious (for
> example I usually list the capitals last).  Where shall we position the
> Tironian ampersand (when we decide which one to use :-)?
Errr, no, sorry, they just group that way phonologically in Gaelic, 
alphabetically is fine.
> As a total outsider it seems as if 204A could hold some advantages, but
> in terms of the practicalities I can't cast a judgement. The ideal would
> be if we gradually do things better, but it is hard to convince people
> to improve font support for small languages. It is a common problem in
> Africa for languages needing extra diacritics. Now if you could get some
> government to mandate language support for imported products, it might
> just get fixed quite quickly :-)
Ya that would be the thing. I did a test page and a straw poll on my 
Facebook account. Last time I ran a test, virtually everyone had boxes 
but this time, only about half reported probles and then usually linked 
to Google Chrome; interestingly cross-OS support has improved. What 
worries me is that mobile devices can't handle 204A at all by the looks 
of it, whereas most seem to do the other one fine. So I think we'll go 
with the second-best option for now; I'll monitor development and when I 
can see a majority of platforms supporting 204A, we can make the change. 
For now, it's more important that it displays, rather than encoding purity.

> Similar things to what would help improving OpenOffice.org. We can use
> a spell checker and autocorrect data exactly as they are used in
> OpenOffice.org.  I guess Kevin Scannel is the best person to talk to
> with regards to spell checkers.  I can help you build the necessary
> autocorrect files - we have some scripts to take a spreadsheet of
> incorrect ->  correct columns and generate the file needed for Virtaal
> and OpenOffice.org.
There already is one: 
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/faclair-afb (though 
the server seems to be down just now). Is there some way we can utilise 
that?
> Another interesting feature of Virtaal is Autoterm, where translators
> can automatically obtain the common FOSS glossary. Read more here:
> http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/virtaal/autoterm
Sounds good, I'll check it out.

Thanks for all your help!

Michael
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