Re: translation exercise
| From: | Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 9, 2002, 15:24 |
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Jan wrote:
>Easy. It's not a long umlaut umlaut, but a tilde: ~.
>I just get it by first typing the tilde and then the
>needed letter (~a = ã, ~o = õ).
>Ã = ALT+0195
>Õ = ALT+0213
>ã = ALT+0227
>õ = ALT+0245
Oh drat. This, I knew. In this email format, though, the capitals
look clearly like tildes while the lower case look like long umlauts
from here (even ñ looks like an n with a long umlaut), hence my
initial glee. I've seen ~ used for the long umlaut in Hungarian
webpages so I was going to use them at home last night for the o and
u of fenyo"tu" in my most recent monster post. But as you point out
and I discovered to my chagrin, there is no u~ immmediately apparent
in the ALT codes, so I stuck with boring old quoteation marks to
avoid confusion. Oh well, back to the drawing board...
Thanks.
Kou
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