Ah, here we go: I knew someone had managed it before!

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/norse_course/message/6102
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/norse_course/message/6101

In Western (ISO-8859-1) and Unicode (UTF-8) respectively. The o-tail
displays correctly here, but on my computer, at least, it doesn't
quite match the size of the other letters -- it's just a bit too big.

LN



--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Patricia Wilson"
<originalpatricia@...> wrote:

>
> << Did it work for
> people who receive these messages as emails?>>
>
> Nope
> Patricia
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: llama_nom
> Date: 05/03/2007 16:40:32
> To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [norse_course] Re: "O-tail"
>
> --- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "shaolinsmasher"
> <shaolinsmasher@> wrote:
> >
> > I do not know for sure if this will work, but I'll try anyway... Here
> > is the annoying "o-tail" in both capital and as a smaller font;
> Ǫ ǫ. I
> > hope that all one need to do is to copy-paste this into the text
> > you're typing, though I do not have any knowledge about technical
> > difficulties regarding this. Anyway, I suggest that you copy-paste
> > these "unavailable" letters into a text document for later use.
>
> Hmm, it didn't display o-tail on the Yahoo Groups website. I can just
> see an ampersand, a hash-sign and a numerical code. Did it work for
> people who receive these messages as emails? I'm sure someone got
> them to display here once though... Normally we substitute ö
> (o-umlaut), and use oe in place of the oe-ligature.
>
> LN
>