Peter Constable wrote:

>
> > From: Peter T. Daniels [mailto:grammatim@...]
>
> > I see exactly what I typed: single guillemets. OTOH when you Windows
> > users type edhs and thorns, I see other things. Mac and Windows standard
> > fonts differ.
>
> If you see something different, that's not a font issue; it's an encoding issue. When you typed Ð and ð on your Mac, I saw those same characters on my Windows system because the software pieces from start to end knew how to handle the encoding issues. That doesn't always happen, especially with older software, and older versions of the Mac and Windows OSs.

Standard Mac fonts don't _have_ edh or thorn. Icelandic isn't one of the
many languages they're designed to accommodate. Hungarian is, but I
gather standard Windows fonts don't have the long-umlaut diacritic.
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