<story><title>The Inuit agree on a common writing system</title><url>https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2019/10/03/the-inuit-agree-on-a-common-writing-system</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jjkaczor</author><text>Wow... It&amp;#x27;s very rare that a HN post intersects so closely with my current work... I say, as I look out the window into downtown Iqaluit.   Interestingly enough newer versions of Windows allows users to easily add support for both Inuktitut Syllabic and Latin languages, I have yet to see a physical keyboard.&lt;p&gt;What irks me the most, is the lack of server-side language support for cloud offerings, on-premise Enterprise products, etc.   If Microsoft can support Klingon for translation purposes, then just maybe they could support Inuktitut a little better.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Inuit agree on a common writing system</title><url>https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2019/10/03/the-inuit-agree-on-a-common-writing-system</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mFixman</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t help but being sad for the official end of the Inuktitut syllabic: it was such a unique system or writing, and it seemed to fit Inuit languages well.&lt;p&gt;Unicode can handle a zillion characters, and I don&amp;#x27;t remember having problems with missing fonts in any of my devices for at least half a decade. If the problem is people talking in English on their cellphones because of lack of input support, couldn&amp;#x27;t the government of Nunavut work in making iOS&amp;#x2F;Android keyboards with a good syllabic input method?</text></comment>