The annoying thing is that it doesn't seem to be any "hooked o" on
those pages - instead I find
'ą' - "hooked a",
'ę' - "hooked e",
'į' - "hooked i",
'ų' - "hooked u".
A very bad system here obviously; why hooker a, e, i and u, but no
hooked o? Why even bother to hook any character if not all of them
may be hooked?
When thinking about it, it seems ironic that characters such as
'ơ' - "hooked o tilted 90 degrees",
'ő' - "o with a double acute accent"
'ō' - "o with a bar",
'ŏ' - "o with an upside-down roof",
'ǒ' - "u with a small upside-down roof",
'ǿ' - "slashed o with acute accent"
are in the system, but not a "hooked o". But the 'u' character seems
to be more interesting to make diacritic. Just take a look at:
'u' - "just an ordinary u", (works for 'o' as well)
'ú' - "u with acute accent", (works for 'o' as well)
'ù' - "u with grave accent", (works for 'o' as well)
'ü' - "i-umlauted u", (works for 'o' as well)
'û' - "u with a roof", (works for 'o' as well)
'ũ' - "u with a tilde", (works for 'o' as well)
'ư' - "hooked o tilted 90 degrees", (works for 'o' as well
'ű' - "u with a double acute accent", (works for 'o' as well)
'ū' - "u with a bar", (works for 'o' as well)
'ŭ' - "u with an upside-down roof", (works for 'o' as well)
'ǔ' - "u with a small upside-down roof"; (works for 'o' as well)
'ų' - "hooked u",
'ů' - "u with a ring",
'ǖ' - "i-umlauted u with bar",
'ǘ' - "i-umlauted u with acute accent",
'ǚ' - "i-umlauted u with small USD roof",
'ǜ' - "i-umlauted u with grave accent".
Here we see that there are some six diacritics of 'u' which don't
exist for 'o'. A shame, really.
One nice thing here:
The "oe ligature" - i.e. '' - may be replaced by a slashed o with
acute accent - i.e. 'ǿ' - since this would follow the usual method of =
lengthening of vowels (a > á; e > é, ... , ø > ǿ). Similarly, 'æ'
could be used as an i-umlauted 'a' (short a) and 'ǽ' as an i-
umlauted 'á' (long a).
Sklär,
Sjurd
--- In
norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Falco Peregrinus
<peregrine@...> wrote:
> Well, I'd reccomend the Code2000 font. It's UNICODE, so just use
the ALT+Number combos to get the characters. It shoudl have
everything needed (including runes.)
> http://home.att.net/~jameskass/CODE2000.ZIP
> http://home.att.net/~jameskass/ is a good test site.
>
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