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"Another world is possible" : International keyboards and characters
Introduction
Our little multilingual exercise introduces one of the web's major endeavours: internationalisation.
The web has a worldwide audience. It therefore needs to support the display of all the languages of the world with their distinct alphabets, symbols, direction of writing and specialised punctuation.
Major efforts have and still are being made to address this need, for instance see http://www.w3.org/International/. Even a cursory look will reveal a sea of complexity. For our purposes we want to avoid this.
Avoiding complexity
We avoid complexity by accepting representations in any of three forms
a) emails containing characters that can be produced using mac or windows keyboard
b) html/xhtml pages containing unicode characters
c) images in png, gif, jpeg or other standard format
Characters that can be produced using mac or windows keyboard
The following are some useful pages retrieved from Google with the terms "keyboard key caps accents acute grave circumflex"
club malu cachu,
Rotinonhsó:ni Keyboards,
Penn State
HTML/Unicode characters
Best explore the relevant w3 documentation, e.g. their FAQ
Images in png, gif, jpeg or other standard format
Produce the text using whatever means are at your disposal and convert it into an image.
If all else fails use pen and paper and scan it in
Email us at
Good Luck
Our MLA Candidate for Foyle
Eamonn McCann
Eamonn McCann is a journalist and author. He has been an active socialist for four decades and was an organiser of the October 1968 Civil Rights march in Derry. He is a member of Derry Trades Council and the Bloody Sunday Trust. In 2005 he was our Westminster candidate for Waterside Rural.
Download Eamonn's Westminster Election Manifesto PDF format(143K)
Look at Eamonn's Westminster Election Manifesto Accessible Format
Our Council Candidates
Colm Bryce (Northland)
Colm Bryce is a former trade union organiser and is currently researching a PhD in labour history at Magee. He is a member of the Derry Anti-War Coalition and Communities Against the Water Tax.
Oisin Kehoe (Northland)
Oisin Kehoe works in an Irish medium nursery and runs a youth club in Ballymagroarty and Shantallow. He is involved in the campaign to save the Brooke Park football pitches
Liam Friel (Cityside)
Liam Friel is a civil service worker and NIPSA branch secretary and a member of Communities Against the Water Tax.
David McAuley (Waterside)
David McAuley is a member of the GMB union. He is a member of Communities Against the Water Tax and the Derry Anti-War Coalition.
