Richard Wordingham wrote:

>
> --- 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.

At a guess, I'd say you're talking about Unicode, rather than about the
standard Windows font with fewer than 255 characters?

Does this, BTW, mean that Unicode isn't useful for typing Hungarian
without creating new characters from separate components? Are ordinary
computer-users in Budapest supposed to be able to do that?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...