Re: Acute accents over non-vowels

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 05:48:16PM -0400, Isidora Zamora wrote:
> Will this work in other word processors (or text editors)?  I assume that
> it will and I just have to figure out how to access the feature.  Does
> anyone know?
Well, you can always get to the symbols via the Character Map accessory
(Start->Programs->Accessories[->System Tools]->Character Map), and copy
and paste from there.  And you can often hold down ALT and type the
decimal character code on the numeric keypad, but on some systems that
only works for keycodes < 256.

Anything more convenient than that is up to the particular program you're
using.

> The list that you give below can be made to work for me.  I need accented
> m, n, N, l, and r.  If I choose to spell ang as <ng> (and spell a N+g
> sequence as <ngg> which looks kinda dumb imnsho -- but really is yet
> another of my husband's excellent orthographic suggestions) then
> the  Unicode characters listed below will completely cover what I
> need.  Thank you so much for including the numbers.  Unicode is so vast
> that I'm sure I never would have found them otherwise.
Why not spell ng as U+014A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG (� ) and
U+014B LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG?  (ŋ)?  Or maybe as ñ Ñ?

> But your're saying that you've been having trouble getting Windows, and
> even Unix, to deal with certain Unicode features properly.  Have I
> understood correctly that this is not one of those areas because these are
> precomposed symbols?
Yes.  The difficulty lies in the nonspacing characters - placing them
correctly or, in some cases, even recognizing them at all.

> Many thanks!
You're welcome!

-Mark

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