Jean-François Colson wrote (re w-tilde):
>
> 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".
Well-- that's good to know. I had tried, but without success. In the ca.
1931 book where w~ was used, however, the tilde was much closer to the top
of the w. I wonder how they type-set that-- probably had to devise a
separate piece of type.