----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-François Colson" <bn130627@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: Sound Change Question
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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.
>
:-((((((
Sorry, I didn't specify to Outlook Express that I wanted it sends the
message in UTF-8. Then it replaced the combining tilde by a stupid ASCII
tilde.
Is there an option somewhere to avoid such replacements?
Here's the char I intended to send: w̃.
> 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 w̃ or w̃.
> 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
>
>