Re: OT: NATLANG: Romanian orthography question

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:02:59AM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> Didn't quite make it through, no doubt due to our friendly neighborhood
> mailing list server.  The yeru is conspicuously absent; apparently 0x8b
> (PARTIAL LINE DOWN) is another byte value which the server converts to spaces.
Huh.  The 0x8b made it all the way through fine; the 0x8a, however,
was completely lost.  Maybe those weren't yerus in Isaac's message?
But if the missing bytes were 0x8a's, then the letters I thought
were yeru's were really hard signs (tvjordij znak), and that makes no sense.
How can k + hard sign be a complete word?

Perhaps the particular bytes munged by the list server are somewhat
context-sensitive?  Hm.

Yeru: ы
Твёрдий знак: �

> 0x85: …
> 0x86: †
> 0x8a: �
> 0x8b: ‹
> 0x93: “
> 0x95: •
> 0x97: —
> 0x99: ™
> 0x9a: š
> 0x9b: ›
> 0x9c: œ
> 0x9e: ž
-Mark