sjuler wrote:

> The "hooked o" is the Old Norse character which causes the meanest
> pain in the butt for those who want to use the original spelling
> system when posting Old Norse texts. A less mean character is the "oe
> ligature". The characters "thorn" ,"eth", "ae ligature", "o slash"
> and to some extent the diacritics (á, é,...; ö) cause some trouble as
> well.
> I see no point in using alternative spelling for "thorn" ,"eth", "ae
> ligature", "o slash". But for "hooked o" and "oe ligature" one needs
> to have an alternative. My proposition is:
>
> The Old Norse manuscripts' "hooked o" is denoted with 'õ' and
> the Old Norse manuscripts' "oe ligature" is denoted 'ö'.

I'm not sure what the problem is. Everything except the "hooked o" are easily
available in the standard Windows TTF fonts, like Times New Roman, Arial, etc.

ð (edh) alt+0240
þ (thorn) alt+0254
œ (o-e ligature) alt+0156
æ (a-e ligature) alt+0230
ø (o-slash) alt+0248

And of course if you're using a wordprocessor, you can set whatever shortcut
keys you like for these.

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Stephen Fryer
Lund Computer Services

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