From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 4468
Date: 2005-03-24
>At a guess, I'd say you're talking about Unicode, rather than about the
> --- 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.