--- Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>
> --- 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 front of me at the moment I can't
> > prove otherwise.
> >
> >
> > > 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.
>
> Well, having had a look at the Microsoft Sans Serif
> font, he clearly doesn't mean double acute accent
> (U+030B), double vertical line above (U+030E) or
> double grave accent (U+030F), unless he does not
> reckon combining forms (which these are) as being
> diacritics. It's also got precomposed o double
> acute and u double acute (near U+0150, in Latin
> Extended-A in the Unicode scheme). Trebuchet MS
> (admittedly meant to be a flagship script, according
> to its embedded blurb) and Arial also have these
> precomposed letters. However, while they have the
> spacing form of double acute (U+02DD), they don't
> have the combining form.
> Perhaps that's what he means.

No. He's just misusing the terminology again. He means
the standard Windows encoding doesn't provide the
Hungarian double acute accent letters. Again, there
are many standard Windows encodings but obviously he
means the 8-bit Western European encoding. (Also known
as code page 1252, but that's technical enough that
not
knowing it isn't ignorance).

> Richard.
>
>
>
>

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