The Attavik web page uses an embedded version of the freely available Pigiarniq font http://www.gov.nu.ca/font.htm which is a Tiro font

Si

Heh, the caption on the illustration to the BBC article is really weird: The Inuktitut langauge was developed in the 18th Century

The Inuktitut language(s) have been around a lot longer than that, while the Inuktitut writing system has only been around since the 19th century.

I think the fact checkers at the beeb should lose their bonus pay.

>Browser settings on normal computers have not supported the language to date, but attavik.net has changed that.

Is that true for the Mac? I thought they'd been shipping a suitable font for a while. At least that's what Ross told me when he sold me the font :-) Maybe the BBC doesn't think of the Mac as a 'normal computer'.

Si

The 5% of a population can never be seen as "normal".
Hey, sort of like those losers who don't like CT! ;->

hhp

*pokes hrant in the eye* I once got told off for saying "pot calling the kettle black" (apparently its racist!), so I'll stick to "Fridge calling the washing machine white" :P

I find this script fascinating - it first came to my attention during our (UK) Queen's golden jubilee in 2002. Check out the STOP sign (you'll need to scroll down a bit):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2301189.stm

Just confirmed that Mac OS 10.3 claims Inuktitut support - see...

http://a336.g.akamai.net/7/336/51/773c53ba7262ec/www.apple.com/macosx/pdf/Panther_Fonts_TB_10082003.pdf

The font used is Ross Mills' Euphemia, which we've also licensed from Tiro.

Cheers, Si