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."

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[Otter]

So, this is using server-side font specification to display Pigiarniq glyphs without the user having the font installed, right? I hadn't realized you could do that (What exactly is being sent over the wire?) but it doesn't seem like any great technical advance has been made.

Good for the Inuit, though! I'm curious to see if they can really implement Inuktitut as the language of government in Nunavut.