Current list of unresolved problems.

Capitalization

Currently there doesn't seem to be an uppercase for the Cherokee syllabary in the Unicode character set, yet this typesetting appears in practice in documents. Unlike English, the uppercase is the same shape as the lowercase except that the character is scaled 25% larger.

The only way I know to work around this is to edit the document in a word processor and change the font size for uppercase letters to be 25% larger. This is a highly time-consuming process that will not work gracefully as the document is revised once errors are corrected.

I see no mechanism for retaining case information in a plain text (UTF-8) file.

Keyboard Entry

Currently a US region keyboard is used to enter the syllabary symbols using latin characters representing the Cherokee syllables.

I wrote a C program that reads a text file where syllables are separated by hyphens and converts them to Unicode Cherokee symbols. The inputs and outputs of this program are published on most of the pages on this document.

If a keyboard that had all symbols, numbers and the puntuations ().,[];:'"`?! I could find at least a two-fold increase in typing performance. I have been toying with the idea of modifying an old keyboard and toying with the scancodes to create a keyboard, but have not proceeded in that direction.

Closed Source Code

I am sure people could benefit with the software I have written to generate the website, but it is so cluttered that I am embarassed for anybody to see it. I promise I will let others see it once I add comments and fix bugs. I don't want others to fall victim to bugs that I have chosen to live with for the time being. You will see it soon.