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

{Here's hoping and trusting that the full header of this message says that
I'm using utf-8 encoding. --nb}

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:29:30 -0500, Peter Constable
<petercon@...> wrote:

>> From: Peter T. Daniels [mailto:grammatim@...]
>> Standard Mac fonts don't _have_ edh or thorn.

Peter, I think you are referring to what was available several years ago.
Today, standard Mac fonts handle a lot of different languages.
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107379> (Please scroll
down to see a bulleted list of Unicode input methods.)

> 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.

Well, if you're using MacRoman encoding, no. But there must be others that
include Icelandic.

I found many useful-looking "hits" when I Googled on [mac fonts
icelandic]. Some, probably many, must be free.

> Hungarian is, but I gather standard Windows fonts don't have the
> long-umlaut diacritic.

I'm essentially certain that the WGL4 fonts do render Hungarian just fine,
and they are definitely a standard set of Windows fonts. Likewise, Arial
Unicode, but the latter is huge, and no longer at all easy to obtain
unless you buy the software which includes it.

> 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.

Most likely, someone else has already replied. Unicode calls them "double
acute". Try U+0150 and 0151, U+0170, 0171. They are Ő, ő, Ű, ű, provided
the utf-8 doesn't become corrupted along the way.

Regards,

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass.
The curious hermit -- autodidact and polymath