Re: [SHOEBOX] CC tables
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 21, 2000, 21:02 |
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At 16:33 21.7.2000 -0400, Jeff Sheets wrote:
>What precisely do you mean by digraphs? I've been out of the linguistic loop
>for a while, so please forgive. CC Tables are downright irritating
>sometimes, but once they are set up, they are blissful.
Actually I mean those occasions when one wants to replace one character
with two, or vice_versa, as "th" ~ "þ", "kh" ~ "x" or "ae" ~ "æ".
The technical meaning of "digraph" is such combis of two letters that
function as a single letter, e.g. ch gh sh th ng &c. in English. I hate
them! ;-)
/BP 8^)>
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