Re: Degaspregos
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 10, 2001, 1:30 |
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> On Sunday, December 9, 2001, at 03:10 , jogloran wrote:
>
> > <<
> > :-) Whereas I grew up with God knows how many of those curved
> > diacriticals in the romanization of Korean, most especially on subway
> > signs (labeled in Korean and English/romanized Korean
> > as "appropriate").
> > I have no idea what they're called: they're like upside-down
> > circumflexes,
> > except curved instead of angular.
> >
> > That diacritic is called a breve.
>
> Thank you! :-) Now I know. The next question is, how on earth do you
> produce 'em on a computer? :-/
Use Unicode! You use MacOS X, don't you? I've got no idea how to do
Unicody stuff on it, so I can't help you on that count, but they'll be in
the Latin Extended A range, I think.
Tristan
anstouh@yahoo.com.au
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