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Now it is time to "wake the dead":
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Obviously this is totally unacceptable:
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I have copied all the elements from the Anglo-Saxon page, and then deleted all the alphabetic buttons (I have retained the punctuation buttons):
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At the risk of offending Gothic purists I shall line the glyphs up, as per the Anglo-Saxon card, in line with the QWERTY layout:
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As quite a few of the Gothic glyphs do NOT look familiar I shall include a transcription window:
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So there is the Gothic alphabet in place.
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Obviously it is fairly silly to show diacritic points in isolation:
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At the moment input will ONLY work with mouse-clicks, so a SWITCH set will have to be implemented in the cardScript to allow end-users to use their keyboard for input.

I have repositioned the QUIT button to the bottom right hand corner as in the Anglo-Saxon card it was obscured by buttons.
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Here's the stack as it is at the moment.

I had to go to an eye doctor the other day for a test as my late father and my mother suffered from glaucoma.

Luckily I have not developed glaucoma (yet): but, while I was waiting for some slightly unpleasant eye drops to do whatever they had to do I bumped up against some odd things about Anglo-Saxon punctuation (sorry, fashionistas, but I read books in hospital waiting rooms rather than cretinously scrolling my mobile phone) . . .
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and some more (damn, the book is in my bag in the car downstairs in the garage . . . will go and get it after lunch.)

Let's see if the 'Happy' Unicode consortium have or haven't . . .

This place is always the place a go to first:

https://shapecatcher.com/

Hmm: not quite:
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Aha:
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https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2E00.pdf

Mind you how the fudge anyone knows what the sense of that was some 1100 years ago is anyone's guess.

You have to love those academics fantasising in their vegetable-derived, ivory-substitute towers . . .

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Back from the garage.

pp 42-43

punctus versus : ';'

punctus circumflexus : '•'

punctus elevatus : 0x2E4E which, I notice is NOT 'there' in my modified Junius font (time to hack that).

For some odd reason the Junius people put 2 of those punctuation marks in the private use area.

I have moved them to their Unicode places:
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I will have to work out the other signs myself.

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That's a bit more like it.

Oh, Dear, the 3 girls who were meant to turn up for an English class at 10.30 today ALL are "indisposed"; which is tough for them: but gives me the time to get on things that, in the ultimate analysis, have more lasting value than them missing a class.
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Inevitably this makes me having serious doubts about these:
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These input vowels with 'built-in' diacritics which is a bit gratuitous, and by substituting "e + overstrike' and so on, I can free up all those keys.
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Makes me feel reasonably good.

Well: that's a start:
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Getting somewhere:
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Followed by mucking around in the cardScript:
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