Re: sound change question

On Wednesday 23 July 2003 01:17 pm, JS Bangs wrote:
> Sylvia Sotomayor sikyal:
>
> > On Wednesday 23 July 2003 10:08 am, JS Bangs wrote:
> > > Sylvia Sotomayor sikyal:
> > >
>
> > > > Thanks to everyone who has responded with sound-change and
> > > > orthographic suggestions. I've decided to change the velars to
> > > > uvulars and the labials to velars (mostly), using nasalized w as
the
> > > > realization of proto-m. A short explanation is available online
> > > > (temporarily) at
> > > >
> > > > http://www.qistech.com/misc/sound-changes.html
> > > >
> > > > for everyone to look at. I'll note that the page displays
> > > > beautifully in any browser on my Windows machine, but that my
> > > > various linux browsers don't seem to get the concept of
> > > > combining-diacritic. :-(
> > >
> > > It displays horribly on my Windows machine, with many of the
> > > characters replaced by boxes, and the combining diacritics not
showing
> > > up at all. On Linux Mozilla, the combining diacritic at least
showed
> > > up, if it didn't combine.
> >
> > Really? Hmm. Which version of Windows and which browser? My page
says
> > it's using unicode encoding, but your browser may not have detected
it?
>
> Here I'm using IE6, and at home I've got Mozilla 1.4. The page
displays in
> a small and very blockily rendered font, with several of the
characters
> appearing as boxes. A closer look at the page reveals that the w-tilde
> does actually appear as it should, although with a very small and
> off-center tilde. Steg's list of improper characters matches mine,
> although the problem hasn't been fixed with whatever updates you
mentioned
> a little while ago.
>
OK. Try it now, but please clear out your Browser cache first.
-Sylvia
> --
> Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
> http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/
> http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/blog
>
> Jesus asked them, "Who do you say that I am?"
>
> And they answered, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the
ground
> of our being, the kerygma in which we find the ultimate meaning of our
> interpersonal relationship."
>
> And Jesus said, "What?"
>
--
Sylvia Sotomayor
sylvia1@ix.netcom.com
kelen@ix.netcom.com

Kélen language info can be found at:
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á (a-acute)  é (e-acute)  í (i-acute)
ó (o-acute)  ú (u-acute)  ñ (n-tilde)

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