Re: sound change question

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.


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