On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 08:00:28PM -0500, longgren@... wrote:
> I have Web TV, not a computer, so if I want to type something in Old
> Norse I can only use the characters I have. I think everyone knows what
> th and dh mean. The only difficult one is * for the umlaut or 2 dots on
> top/
That's difficult, of course. Doesn't Web TV have (i.e. support) german
language users (umlauts, ß!)? Icelandic ones (modern Icelandic has IIRC
at least á, é, í, ó, ú, ý, as well as eth ð and thorn þ)? :-S
I'd say, write it some way you can cope with, along with a short
explanation (e.g. at the end of your mail).
Í friði,
Hannah.
PS: Even full iso8859-1 has lacks, as we know: we use ö for
o, I don't know what anyone uses for ó (long ö), and oe for the
` `
ligature.