Comment 12 for bug 315740

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In , Dominique Pellé (dominique-pelle) wrote :

(In reply to comment #7)

> I see that you, as I suspected from reading the web pages you mentioned
> earlier, needed six keysyms.
>
> I need to determine where to stick the new keysyms. Are you aware of
> any encodings where those letters exist as single characters?

First of all, I'm not an expert, I'm only learning the language.
It would be nice to get the advice from an expert.

Having said that, this is what I found online: even though C'H and CH
are considered as unique letters in Breton, there is no existing
encoding with the C'H trigraph or CH digraph as one single character,
as far as I know. At least Unicode does not have yet such character
as I see in this FAQ:

http://www.drouizig.org/Saozneg/Keyboard/keyboard-FAQ-FrequentlyAs.html

May also be useful:

http://unicode.org/cldr/bugs/locale-bugs/data?id=857;user=guest
http://developer.mimer.com/features/unicode/tailorings.htm

Some random facts which may be relevant:

- There is a locale setting "br_FR.UTF-8".
- C letter alone does not exist in the Breton alphabet.
- For sorting (collation order), the order should in theory be:

  A B CH C'H D E F...