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Re: Yogh in the news

From:R A Brown <ray@...>
Date:Thursday, January 12, 2006, 17:32
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 ================================== ray@carolandray.plus.com http://www.carolandray.plus.com ================================== MAKE POVERTY HISTORY