On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:46:51 -0500, Henry Carmichael wrote:
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> Hi, Sam & others:
> When an accent mark leans to the right, it is called an acute accent.
> When the mark leans to the left, it is called a grave accent.
> When the mark is like ^, it is a circumflex accent.
> So the Alt-130 character is "e with an acute accent", or for short,
> "e-acute". Likewise, the Alt-131 character is "e-circumflex", and
> the Alt-133 character is "a-grave".
> Of course there are many other marks used in the orthography of other
> languages, but these are the most common ones in western Europe.
Thank you very much, Henry. This information will be of great help to all
of us.
Sam Heywood
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