Thorn, Eth & Mislabelled UTF-8 (was: Delimiters)

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Nicholas Bodley" <nbodley@...> wrote:

> >> 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 use thorn and eth for Old English, Proto-Germanic and Latin-1
IPA. I don't think I've ever used them for 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.

> Most likely, someone else has already replied. Unicode calls

them "double

> acute". Try U+0150 and 0151, U+0170, 0171. They are Ő, Å`, Å°, ű,

provided

> the utf-8 doesn't become corrupted along the way.

Works fine in the IE and Firefox browsers if one tells them that the
data is actually in UTF-8.

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Richard.