In <news:mi-dntrarmjbywplnz2dnuu7-ludn...@mozilla.org>, "Paul B. Gallagher" <pau...@pbgdashtranslations.com> wrote:
> In a discussion of American English phonetics, I had occasion to use > the combining tilde (U+0303), but was surprised at the result: > > > ... she does routinely flap /t,d,n/ like most Americans. > > > > At 1:15, it occurs in "many" [mɛ̃ɾi] (I've used "ɛ̃" for nasalized > > [ɛ], which would properly be written with the tilde over the vowel). > > She does the same thing elsewhere in "lovin' is so soft" > > [lʌvɪ̃ɾɪzsosɔft]. > > As displayed in my original plain-text message and in the composition > for this plain-text message, the tildes are displaced one character > to the right. My pref for plain-text messages specifies the font > Courier New; AFAIK this is a TrueType font. I can't explain the displacement you and others seeing, but what your SM is sending out seems to be ok; the UTF-8 encodings for the combining tildes are correct in your plain text and and in your html posts. According to <http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0303/fontsupport.htm>, Courier New supports combining tildes. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
