From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 4483
Date: 2005-03-24
> Richard Wordingham wrote:front of me
> >
> > --- 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
> > > at the moment I can't prove otherwise.but I
> > > > Icelandic isn't one of the
> > > > many languages they're designed to accommodate. Hungarian is,
> > > > gather standard Windows fonts don't have the long-umlautdiacritic.
> > > Well, I know what an umlaut diacritic is, but don't know how thatI'm using Unicode to specify the character. That purpose by itself
> > > 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),...
> 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 HungarianNo. No. I was trying and failing to interpret your remark in a way
> without creating new characters from separate components? Are ordinary
> computer-users in Budapest supposed to be able to do that?