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Re: CHAT: First report on Coní (was: Re: CHAT: Bouncing)

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 19, 2003, 18:20
Dan Jones wrote:
> Daniel Andreasson wrote: > >> /8/ is written |û| as of now (u + circumflex). If this vowel >> can be prepalatalized (like the other vowels) we have a problem. >> Prepalatalization is marked by diaresis: |ä| is /ja/. Irregular >> stress is marked by an acute accent (as in the language name: >> Coní). How do you combine diaresis and/or acute accent with a >> circumflex? > > > How about the doubled acute accent used in Hungarian long front rounded > vowels? Not possible in ASCII, I know, but it's always had an aesthetic > appeal for me.
Well, by using any diacritics at all you're going beyond what ASCII can do. Unicode can stack diacritics, but they may still be difficult to type (depending on how nice your text editor or word processor is).