----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: Sound Change Question
> Jesse 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
> > > 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.
> >
> OK for the most part on mine. Everything in the tables looked good; some
of
> the IPA in the text (chi, small-cap N, maybe 1-2 others) were little
boxes.
> No real problem; and very interesting work..........!
>
Everything's well for me.
I use Windows 98 [Version 4.10.1998] and I tried with Internet Explorer 6.0
[Version 6.0.2800.1106IS] and with Mozilla 1.0 [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530].
Only one little problem: with Mozilla the combining tilde is higher than
with IE.
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Jean-François Colson
jfcolson (a) belgacom.net