Re: TECH (?) question: diacritics

On 11/5/07, Michael Poxon <mike@...> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure there are no a's with double acute in Hungarian, though it
> does have both o and u with double acute.
And more's the pity; I could have used a with double acute recently to
go with o and u.


On 11/4/07, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> 3. failing that, is there a precomposed char. for _a_ plus double acute, or
> some way to do it (in typing, again)? I thought Hungarian used this, but in
> my Thryomanes font I find only a with double _grave_, whch I could be
> pressed into service. In fact, why not use the grave for stress, instead of
> acute?? 6 of one........
IIRC, the vowels with double grave come from Croatian, where they're
occasionally used to mark stress or pitch or something in poetry
analysis -- presumably more or less the way that breve and macron are
used in English.

I'm a bit surprised they made it into Unicode as precomposed
characters; after all, I doubt that vowels with breves and macrons
would have made it in solely on the basis of their use in English,
which seems pretty marginal to me.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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