Re: Charset in insight

[Marie Fischer]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> I thought about that, but was afraid that someone would complain about
> the posting of a graphics file to the mailing list.  I think the
> characters are adequately described in the text. 

I think so too

> By speaking of an
> accented vowel, "forward accent /"  I mean to describe an accent mark
> going this way (/) instead of the other way (\).  The French language
> has a lot of accent marks going the other way.  In Spanish, all the
> accent marks go this way (/).  If someone knows of some proper technical
> terms by which to describe various types of accent marks, please tell us
> about them.

In french, they're called accent aigu (/) and accent grave (\) iirc. But
forward/backward describes it actually better :)

-- 
marie