Supporting en@shaw, the Shavian alphabet
I have been asked whether it would be possible to transliterate the English version of Ubuntu into the Shavian alphabet (the locale being "en@shaw", presumably, since "shaw" is the ISO 15924 code for the alphabet). I have some tools which will transliterate .po files automatically, using a pronunciation dictionary, as in this screenshot: http://
Some background:
The Shavian alphabet is an alternative alphabet to English designed in the 1960s. Essentially it is just another alphabet for writing English, but more regularly and in fewer characters than the standard Latin alphabet. For example, this paragraph in Shavian looks like this:
๐ ยท๐๐ฑ๐๐พ๐ฏ ๐จ๐ค๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ ๐จ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ค๐๐ป๐ฏ๐ฉ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐จ๐ค๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ค๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ 1960๐. ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฏ๐๐ฉ๐ค๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ก๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ฉ๐๐ป ๐จ๐ค๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐น ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ค๐ฆ๐, ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ฅ๐น ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐ค๐ป ๐๐จ๐ฏ ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ป๐ ๐ค๐จ๐๐ฉ๐ฏ ๐จ๐ค๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐. ๐๐น ๐ฆ๐๐๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ฉ๐ค, ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐ฎ๐จ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฏ ยท๐๐ฑ๐๐พ๐ฏ ๐ค๐ซ๐๐ ๐ค๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐.
You may need a font such as http://
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