Re: TECH (?) question: diacritics
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 5, 2007, 16:58 |
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On 11/5/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On 11/5/07, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> > It's just that I had never heard of letters with double acute before,
> > and they're not in, for example, iso-8859-2 or even Windows-1250.
> > Though I suppose there are more character sets than those.
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> But they *are* in ISO-8859-2. Hexadecimal D5 and F5 are uppercase and
> lowercase O with double acute, while DB and FB are the versions based
> on the letter U. And as I said, only O and U are present in
> precomposed double-acute characters.
Oops, sorry -- I meant "letters with double grave", which was what I
had been talking about in the part of the message you replied to.
Those are the ones that are in Croatian literary analysis (or whatever
it was), but aren't in iso-8859-2.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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