Re: TECH (?) question: diacritics

On 11/4/07, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> 1. is there a precomposed char. for ä (a umlaut) with acute accent?
Nope.  Here are all the precomposed characters that consist if "a"
plus two or more diacritics:

01DF    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS AND MACRON
01E1    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOT ABOVE AND MACRON
01FB    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE AND ACUTE
1EA5    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND ACUTE
1EA7    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND GRAVE
1EA9    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND HOOK ABOVE
1EAB    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND TILDE
1EAD    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND DOT BELOW
1EAF    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND ACUTE
1EB1    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND GRAVE
1EB3    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND HOOK ABOVE
1EB5    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND TILDE
1EB7    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND DOT BELOW

To get the glyph you want, assuming you want the acute over the
diaresis, you can either do

00E4    LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS

followed by

0301    COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT

or go completely decomposed:

0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A
0308 COMBINING DIAERESIS
0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT


> 2. If not, is there some way to do this (in typing, using "insert spec.
> char")?
You should be able to navigate to the proper Unicode code point in the
Character Map utility and paste from it.

> While we're at it, how would one do it it html??  I managed this
> once, but have forgotten how.........
The most general way to insert arbitrary Unicode characters into HTML
is with a numeric entity.  The hexadecimal form lets you use the
Unicode code point directly as it is usually listed:

&#x00e4;&#x0301;

There are named entities as well, at least for some characters:

&auml;&#x0301;



> 3. failing that, is there a precomposed char. for _a_ plus double acute?
No A.  Just O and U.  There is, as you say, A with double grave
(0200 uppercase, 0201 lowercase).

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