double aqcute accents (OpenInsight 32-Bit)
At 04 SEP 2010 02:08:43PM Mike O'Neal wrote:
Hi all -
Would someone be able to test these double acute accents characters in 9.2 and let me know if they save and display properly?
Thanks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_acute_accent
Mike O.
At 06 SEP 2010 06:14PM dbakke@srpcs.com's Don Bakke wrote:
Mike,
The answer is yes. Are you have trouble with these characters or were you looking for an independent verification?
dbakke@srpcs.com
At 07 SEP 2010 11:16AM Mike O'Neal wrote:
Thanks Don, just looking for verification.
Mike
At 07 SEP 2010 12:16PM Alexander Holliday wrote:
The double umlaut (hungarumlaut) is found in Hungarian on the "o" and "u". For o,O,u,U, the respective Unicode values are U+0151, U+0150, U+0171, U+0170.
Needless to say, the font you are using will need to contain any Unicode point you wish to use, but as long as you are staying in the Latin and extended Latin character sets, you will have all of the characters at your disposal.
At 07 SEP 2010 12:53PM dbakke@srpcs.com's Don Bakke wrote:
Hello Alexander! I hope all has been going well since I last saw you at the conference.
Right you are about the font. I was going to mention that myself, but as you noted it seems like this character set is commonly supported. I was able to see the characters fine in Arial, Tahoma, and Consolas (my favorite editor font.)
dbakke@srpcs.com
At 08 SEP 2010 03:52AM Alexander Holliday wrote:
Likewise. No chance you might be at the Unicode conference Oct 18-20 in Santa Clara?
With the hungarumlaut (or any other character) there is also a possibility of putting them on any other letter, including those for which it is not "appropriate". The concession which the Unicode Consortium made (and others before them who dealt with the problems of accents) was to assign some "standard" letter + accent combinations to a particular code point. This was a practical decision and one which was good, considering the restrictions at that time. Now, with canonical decompositions, it is possible to create characters with even more than one accent on them. Probably not often used in our environment, but… Never say "never". After all, this is one of the most flexible environments around and particularly well suited to handling the types of applications where others can only build a bridge which goes 90% across the river.