Re: Yogh in the news

On 1/12/06, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
>
> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, 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).  On a Windows system you should be able to
generate them by holding down the alt key and typing 5-4-0 or 5-4-1 on the
numeric keypad.  In theory, that trick should work for any Unicode code
point that you can express in 3 decimal digits, though I don't have a
Windows machine to test on.  In any case, you should be able to type
anything through U+03E7 (decimal 999) COPTIC SMALL LETTER KHEI that way.
From U+03E8 COPTIC CAPITAL LETTER HORI on, it's back to the old Character
utility.

--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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