Re: new webpage

On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 10:15, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Tim May :
>
> >  >
> >I have the same problem*, but looking at the source and my unicode
> >charmap it appears to be U+01F7 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER WYNN, in the
> >Latin Extended B range.  Weird-looking thing somewhere between a P and
> >a thorn, I don't recall ever seeing one before.
>
> Me neither. Nice looking character :) .
It's the Old English letter used to write the /w/ sound. I believe it
derives from a rune. Especially in the capital, it's one of my favorite
letters (which is the main reason I'm using it :) ). (When the Latin
alphabet was first used to write OE, VV was used to represent /w/, and
it caught on on the Continent. Then they started using the wynn,
possibly because it's one letter. When the French invaded and changed
the way the language was written, they brought the W back with them.)

> >* Konqueror won't show it at all, Mozilla (which can cobble together a
> >   display out of different fonts, but not as well as the pango-based
> >   charmap) seems to be managing with the miniscule but not the capital
> >   form.
>
> Opera shows both the small and capital forms without a problem :) .
So do Mozilla and Galeon for me. (And I installed the Opera 7 beta for
Linux but it is broken on my computer---I'm only getting text on the
webpage and menus, but not in dialog boxes or the toolbar, statusbar and
other such places. Most irritable.)

BTW Christophe, what does free.fr support? I may well want to change
server.

Tristan.

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