I wrote to Oxford today to complain that there should be a
Macintosh version. Please do likewise, if you're a Mac user
and think that we deserve better!
Already did so, in fact, just hours after I posted, I got a response (via
snail mail) telling me they had no intention of doing so,
Internet Explorer 5.5, running under Windows 95 --
a non-Unicode system except for the UniScribe support
provided by IE -- can display not only Latin Y with grave
and with acute but also Greek Upsilon with varia and
with oxia.
Yes, but . . . they don't look very good as combining
Just to complete my thanks (now that I've received the digest), thanks
too to Michael Everson for his comments, and John Hudson for the
typographer's viewpoint on this suggestion.
On the other subject that has been zipping about under this heading:
I asked about ConScript only because it was
In Windows ME, works in IE5.5 but not in Netscape 4.7 or Mozilla 2001021204.
So I doubt it would work in say Linux (I haven't tested it, but might be
able to later on).
In IE5.5/ME, it works for me not only with different fontName values, but
even with a list (e.g.,
var fontName="Arial Unicode
Quick tangential correction to that table that Patrick Andries supplied a
link to: it seems to imply that the Greek accents were musical notation;
they were not. For ancient Greek musical notation see M.L. West, *Ancient
Greek Music*, pp. 254-276, especially the table on p. 256.
Patrick Rourke
Don't know what the Unicode rules are, but the answer is no. The final
sigma form is not used if the sigma is in a medial position in the word but
at the end of the line (e.g., when it occurs at the point of hyphenation in
a hyphenated word at line end). Also, there is no reason why a consonant
Thanks to everyone who responded, especially Mr. Hagedorn; as it is
precisely the Extended Greek, Basic Greek, and Combining diacriticals blocks
that interest me, this was very important information.
Patrick Rourke
Netscape, Internet Explorer and Icab (another browser for the MacOs)
use UTF8
Here's a listing of the Unicode names (which are the modern Greek names, I
believe) for diacriticals in the Extended Greek range and the analogous
English *common* names of the Greek accents:
acute = oxia
grave = varia
circumflex = perispomeni
iota subscript = ypogegrammeni
smooth breathing =
He didn't actually say it: someone joked at a dinner or fundraiser that Dan
Quayle had felt guilty that he hadn't studied his Latin upon his visit to
Latin America, and the press picked it up as though it were a true report of
Quayle's own words.
What it says of the man that millions of people
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