Latin Characters

2004-06-22 Thread Joe Speroni
I got an enormous number of answers and you had the solution to my problem.   I learned how to get to the Windows Character Map utility (START-PROGRAMS-ACCESSORIES-SYSTEM TOOLS- CHARACTERS MAP).   I was reminded that ALT+UNICODE (decimal) inputs characters into Windows applications, and

Re: Latin long vowels

2004-06-22 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2004.06.22, 16:20, Marco Cimarosti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can also compose them with the normal letter followed by > character MODIFIER LETTER MACRON (code 02C9, decimal 713). Oops! You mean U+0304 : COMBINING MACRON (decimal: 772). --

Re: Latin long vowels

2004-06-22 Thread Peter Kirk
On 22/06/2004 08:20, Marco Cimarosti wrote: ... If so, would anyone know from where a Windows XP font containing these five characters could be download? Several fonts which come pre-installed in Windows NT, 2000 or XP have those characters, e.g. Arial, Times New Roman and Courier. Aloha,

RE: Latin long vowels

2004-06-22 Thread Lucans, Gunars
More specifically, you can get to these long vowels in a WGL4 font by selecting Baltic (codepage 1257) encoding since they're used in Latvian. The original poster mentioned trying to scan the Latin text, which I assume also means doing an OCR (optical character recognition) pass to convert the

RE: Latin long vowels

2004-06-22 Thread Addison Phillips [wM]
ï The characters you mention exist in Unicode.   They are:   U+014D U+0113 U+0101 U+012B U+016B   (those are the lowercase letters, the uppercase versions are 1 less than the lowercase, so capital O with macron is U+014C). I've typed them into this message so you can play with fonts:   ÅÄÄÄÅ ÅÄ

Re: Latin long vowels

2004-06-22 Thread Jon Hanna
Quoting Joe Speroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I apologize for a simple question, but after a few hours of "research" I > don't seem to be able to find the characters needed. I'm trying to scan a > Latin text that uses a bar over the vowels to indicate long sounds. Do > these characters exist in Uni

RE: Latin long vowels

2004-06-22 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Joe Speroni wrote: > I apologize for a simple question, but after a few hours of > "research" I don't seem to be able to find the characters needed. Funny: I see them in my Windows Character Map utility at the first hit on Page Down key... > I'm trying to scan a Latin text that uses a bar over th

RE: Latin long vowels

2004-06-22 Thread Alan Wood
Joe Speroni asked: I'm trying to scan a Latin text that uses a bar over the vowels to indicate long sounds. Do these characters exist in Unicode? If so, would anyone know from where a Windows XP font containing these five characters could be download? __ Yes, they are all

Re: Latin long vowels

2004-06-22 Thread Doug Ewell
oeaiu Joe Speroni wrote: > I apologize for a simple question, but after a few hours of "research" > I don't seem to be able to find the characters needed. I'm trying to > scan a Latin text that uses a bar over the vowels to indicate long > sounds. Do these characters exist in Unicode? > > ÅÄÄÄÅ

Latin long vowels

2004-06-22 Thread Joe Speroni
I apologize for a simple question, but after a few hours of “research” I don’t seem to be able to find the characters needed.  I’m trying to scan a Latin text that uses a bar over the vowels to indicate long sounds.  Do these characters exist in Unicode?