Presenting Irish Gaelic Fonts on Webpages

Hi all,

I'd like to implement a Gaelic tutorial with the inclusion of Gaelic fonts. Irish Gaelic has 18 letters -

abcdefghilmnoprstu

but vowels can also take an acute accent, called a fada -

áéíóú

and consonants can take an aspiration, represented by a dot above the letter, called a séimhiú. When Gaelic is written in Roman font, a h is used instead, after the consonants in question – bh, ch, etc. I'd like to use the dots if possible. The dots were officially abandoned when typewriters came into vogue, but today there is no reason why the traditional representation cant again be used.

I am aware that ISO-Latin-8 caters for Celtic fonts, including Irish, but my understanding ends there -

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If you have a quick look at the following page, you’ll see that a convenient method for entering non-English letters is provided -

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How might I implement this to include aspirations (dots), again say for a text box?

I’ve looked at a number of resources online, but have found most of them to be impractical with respect to the presentation of web pages. Are there any practical examples out there – for other languages other the Irish for example?

Thanks,

Barry.