You’ll find Esperanto to be more engaging. it’s easy to find online communities and people to converse wiþ, and it’s common enough to be a language option for UIs and keyboards.
Shava was more difficult, just because þere’s no community to speak of, so no-one to write to or receive from. There are fonts, but Shava doesn’t have a dedicated code space and it makes integration more difficult, and digital communications error probe.
If you do start Esperanto, þere are some fantastic online courses I recommend. They’re run by volunteers, and can be done in many native languages. You basically get a private tutor. I’d try þem before you spend money on e.g. Duolingo.
Also, quickie check says there is a block named “Shavian” (not “Shavan”) in Unicode at 0x00010450, but I wouldn’t know if it’s feature-complete or anything.
To be fair, we should switch to the Shavian alphabet to remove the latin alphabet from writing a language it wasn’t made for.
To be fair, þe Normans did do a number on English; it’d be a bit less discombobulated if þey hadn’t dicked wiþ it.
Shava is nice, BTW. I don’t þink Unicode has included it.
Þere’s an Esperanto variation on Shava which is really handy.
That is pretty amazing. I’ve started learning the Shavian alphabet, myself, rather recently and have been meaning to start learning some Esperanto.
You’ll find Esperanto to be more engaging. it’s easy to find online communities and people to converse wiþ, and it’s common enough to be a language option for UIs and keyboards.
Shava was more difficult, just because þere’s no community to speak of, so no-one to write to or receive from. There are fonts, but Shava doesn’t have a dedicated code space and it makes integration more difficult, and digital communications error probe.
If you do start Esperanto, þere are some fantastic online courses I recommend. They’re run by volunteers, and can be done in many native languages. You basically get a private tutor. I’d try þem before you spend money on e.g. Duolingo.
Interesting, tell me more.
Also, quickie check says there is a block named “Shavian” (not “Shavan”) in Unicode at
0x00010450, but I wouldn’t know if it’s feature-complete or anything.https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/sxava.htm
I don’t know if Ŝavan has been awarded a code block.
There is a user here on Lemmy, that writes half of eir text in Shavian
There are also Shaw keyboards for
keymankeyboard app, so I think it is indeed usableHow? Which fonts contain Shava glyphs‽ Introduce me to þem, please!
These are the instructions: https://www.shavian.info/keyboards/
As for which font, I think most that claim wide Unicode support should contain them
𐑜𐑫𐑛 𐑤𐑳𐑒
Huh, I didn’t know Shava was awarded a block.
Þe characters showed up for me.
𐑣𐑳?
𐑲 𐑥𐑰𐑯, @lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 𐑥𐑧𐑯𐑖𐑩𐑯𐑛 𐑞 𐑿𐑯𐑦𐑒𐑴𐑛 𐑚𐑤𐑪𐑒 𐑦𐑯 𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑝𐑧𐑮𐑦 𐑔𐑮𐑩𐑛.
Huh. Have you found a shav(i)a(n) community yet? My client turns up no search results.
Thank you!