Re: Symbols in HTML, was: Boreanesian in the Web

Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>The best way to present a conlang on the Web still is a transcription
>scheme that confines itself to the ISO Latin-1 characters.  If
>everything else fails, use a convention to prefix or suffix diacritics
>HTML cannot handle (e.g. ,s for s-cedille or ^g for
>g-accent-circonflexe).  Doesn't look very good, but works.

As long as you don't need more than one diacritic'd (diacriticked?) version
of every character, you can simply realize any diacritic as an underline. To
underline a character, place it within the <u>-tag, so a-underline is
<u>a</u> (should your email programme interpret this as HTML, it's
"less-than u more-than"). This solution is pretty widespread on the 'net,
found for instance on Britannica.com, and, while ugly, much less so than
commas and circumflexes floating around, IMHO (personally, I find
word-medial commas hugely distracting).


                                                Andreas

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