"You just about wiped us out, the least you can do is let us use our language."
I'd suspect more widely used languages in Canada also benefit from Unicode support.
edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamish_language indicates there are 449 people learning the language as of 2018, too, in an attempt to prevent its extinction.
To be clear, no one is preventing them from using the language, only registering a business in a particular character set. Also, respectfully, (and I'm sure I'll be downvoted into the ground for asking, but) I don't understand the ethical calculus that faults living groups of people for things some other group of people (albeit with the same label) did centuries ago. The only way I can make it make sense is if we pretend that human beings are fungible tokens within their identity groups. I'm only digressing because this sort of rationale seems to keep coming up these days and I don't understand it.
The last residential school wasn't shutdown until the mid 1990s.
You mean the orthographic written form of the language that was codified by same "wiper outers" to help preserve it?
I wonder how other words in the same language have been written to use them as business names (non or less orthographic versions). Or considering typewriters and computers have long been useless with non-standard character sets, how the words were depicted when using those tools. Presumably there's some rendered form of the words that makes use of UTF-8, right?