Aboriginal Languages Now Easier on the Web

orkz writes "The BBC reports that Canada's Inuit can now publish to the web in their native language of Inuktitut, as well as more easily view websites that contain their syllabic font, thanks to a system a developed by a unique ASP, Web Networks that provides services to socially committed organizations."

Comments

Ummm...So what?

[sepluv]

I don't see what this achieves except a quick buck for the company concerned as Unicode has supported canadian syllabalics for ages. One can view Inuktitut pages fine if you install an appropriate font. (It must be a slow news day on /.--or maybe /. gets brown envelopes for these company press-release/ad stories)

Also how much do these guys know about character sets? The Attavik website uses "latin1" (a non existent charset--should be "ISO-8859-1"--and why not UTF-8 so they don't need images) and is content-free giving no one any real idea what they do. From what it says I think they sell proprietary software to Inuktitut organisations (that they probs don't need) though.

Also, the companies homepage (which sucks) doesn't have a charset (and is not UTF-8/ASCII) and is very invalid even when you do work the charset out.