Re: Yogh in the news
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 12, 2006, 17:32 |
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Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On 1/12/06, *caeruleancentaur* <caeruleancentaur@yahoo.com
> <mailto:caeruleancentaur@...>> wrote:
>
> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com <mailto:conlang@...>,
> Peter Bleackley
> <Peter.Bleackley@R...> wrote:
>
>
> Speaking of which, I finally, quite serendipitously, found the code
> for yogh. I always wanted to us it for /j/ in Senjecan. It's Alt-
> 541. It works on WordPerfect, but I doubt that it'll work here: ¡ê.
> Nope.
>
>
> I don't know why you people continue to use Yahoo! email. Absolutely
> inexplicable. It's like abused women who won't leave their abusers.
>
> In any case, that code works because in Unicode, yogh is U+021C
> (capital), and 021C is hexadecimal for the number 540. (U+021D =
> decimal 541 is the lowercase one, if you need it).
Menȝies - so it is! Let's see if it works with capitals: MENȜIES
Yep - just as Mark says ;)
That Scots yogh, which gets printed as 'z', occurs in one or two other
words. E.g.
capercalȝie /k&p@(e)'kejli/ = a species of grouse (bird)
Dalȝiel /di'El/ Scots surname.
Ray
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