--- 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.

By "standard Mac fonts" he means 8-bit fonts designed
only for the 8-bit MacRoman encoding. Indeed they
don't
include the Icelandic characters. Of course there were
other standard 8-bit Mac encodings including
MacIcelandic which does include them. Current standard
Mac fonts use Unicode just like other platforms and
can include whichever subset of Unicode they like.

> > 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.

Also known as a "double acute" accent. I'm surprised
you didn't realize this.

> Peter Constable
>

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