Re: Fwd: Kana and Case (was [totally OT] Unicode terminology)

[Tex Texin]

Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> ...The place you'll see this usage of the prolonged sound
> mark fairly frequently is in Japanese comics, which are rather
> loose and inventive in their use of spellings and "paraspellings"
> to convey tone of voice and other prosodic information.


Which brings up the question, when do we encode the
comic book (non-spacing) zig-zaggy-balloon-thingie that goes around 
the text for pow!, biff#@!, bam%$#!, and shazam! ?

;-)
Tex




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