Re: IPA bugs in Windows?

From: "Herman Miller" <hmiller@...>

| One of the features of the Tirelhat dictionary / word usage guide that I'm
| slowly putting together is the pronunciation of each word in IPA. I thought
| it would be cool to include the pronunciation on the English side as well.
| But then I noticed a U+019E LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH LONG RIGHT LEG in one
| of my pronunciations where I had put a syllabic N [n=]! It's odd that this
| obsolete symbol would show up anywhere. It certainly doesn't make sense for
| _English_ syllabic N as in "button" (American pronunciation), which is a
| different thing entirely from the Japanese sound it was originally designed
| for. The _really_ odd thing is that as far as Microsoft Word knew, it still
| _was_ an "n" with a vertical line under it! And deleting the "n" makes the
| vertical line show up normally.

That letter, capital and small letter N with long right leg, has two usages:
it's a letter in current usage in Lakhota (I think it indicates nasal vowels but
I could be wrong), and it's an archaic usage for transliterated Japapese
syllabic -n, which you stated in the original post.

~Danny~


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