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Posted by Harlan Messinger on June 24, 2008, 2:42 pm
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Simon wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I'm working on a team that is planning to add Welsh language support to a
> large existing IT system which is partially web-based and
> English-language-only so far. I've heard that 2 characters in Welsh
> (w-circumflex and y-circumflex) are not supported in our default ISO-8859-1
> character set, so a partial move to Unicode for internal storage of text
> might be required.
>
> I haven't yet found a Welsh-language website that uses these 2 characters,
> so are they actually used much in Welsh? Is not supporting them likely to
> cause problems?
It could be a support problem (though I don't know why, given the
availability of UTF-8 as well as the option of numeric character
references): see the note at the bottom of
http://www.menai.ac.uk/clicclic/
As made clear at
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Lesson01.html
the circumflex really is supposed to appear in these locations. (Note
that even on this page, section 1.2 explains that because of support
issues, they are using their own ugly work-around for accented
characters.) Examples are given: "ty^" = "house", along with the pair
"gw^ydd" = "goose" and "gwy^dd" = "trees", which are pronounced differently.
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