Re: Delimiters <-- Re: IIT (Madras) point of view

Peter Constable 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.

What does that say you're saying about me?

> > 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.

Go to anything in Hungarian. You'll find o's and u's with what looks
like two acute accents. That's a long umlaut, marking long front rounded
vowels. (Acutes in Hungarian mark long vowels.)
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...