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

Richard Wordingham wrote:

>
> --- 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.

Germanicists weren't the target audience for fonts when they were being
set up. Modern Europeans, including Icelanders, were.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...