Re: sound change question

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From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: Sound Change Question


> Yes, in at least one work that I know of-- to distinguish bilabial approx.
> /w/ < *w from fricative /B/ < *b also written with "w" (the author should
> have used "v", but being Dutch, it didn't look right to him, I guess).
> But's it's VERY difficult to reproduce on the keyboard, and I don't think
> there's a Unicode for it.
I'm sure there's a Unicode for it: w~ (0x0077 LATIN SMALL LETTER W + 0x0303
COMBINING TILDE).
In an HTML page, you can type w&#X0303; or w&#771;.
If you're using Word (or another wordprocessor with a character map), you
can easily add a shortcut for the combining tilde, which you type after the
"w".

That doesn't look nice in uppercase, however. Except perhaps with a very
well designed OpenType font.

--
Jean-François Colson
jfcolson (a) belgacom.net

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