--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Constable" <petercon@...> wrote:

> > From: Peter T. Daniels [mailto:grammatim@...]
>
> > Standard Mac fonts don't _have_ edh or thorn.
>
> I find that difficult to believe, though not having a Mac in front of me
> at the moment I can't prove otherwise.
>
>
> > 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.
>
> Well, I know what an umlaut diacritic is, but don't know how that
> differs from a "long-umlaut diacritic". If you could point me to a
> sample of one, I'd be interested to find out.

Well, having had a look at the Microsoft Sans Serif font, he clearly
doesn't mean double acute accent (U+030B), double vertical line above
(U+030E) or double grave accent (U+030F), unless he does not reckon
combining forms (which these are) as being diacritics. It's also got
precomposed o double acute and u double acute (near U+0150, in Latin
Extended-A in the Unicode scheme). Trebuchet MS (admittedly meant to
be a flagship script, according to its embedded blurb) and Arial also
have these precomposed letters. However, while they have the spacing
form of double acute (U+02DD), they don't have the combining form.
Perhaps that's what he means.

Richard.