[TxMt] Foreign Language Bundles; specifically Latin

[Steven Harms]

Gerd,

In my experience that glyph ( chosen by opt-a + vowel ) when inserted  
in HTML does not port - when viewed in a web page it tends to come up  
as a '?' or something similar whereas the unicode value does port.

So, in theory i could extend the "Convert HTML to Entities" code and  
augment it to support macron-ized vowels. Eve Now, I may merely be  
reflecting my ignorance of UTF-8 and i18n in general, but without the  
text being easily ported, I simply don't feel like I'm building data  
artifacts that can be re-used flexibly - and I need that.

I feel like my solution is *good* and opening it up for others to  
benefit from would be good too, I just wonder if there's a better way,  
or a larger geist that would be well served by by my trying to take a  
larger perspective.

Steven



On Mar 9, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:

>
> On Mar 9, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Steven Harms wrote:
>
>> I am currently taking an ancient Latin class.
>>
>> Latin, in modern text, makes use of macron ( bars over letters ).
>>
> Hmmm... I had 6 years of Latin (in Germany) and have never seen such  
> a thing. So curiosity had me look it up on Wikipedia. Quote:  
> "Textbooks and dictionaries indicate the quantity of vowels by  
> putting a macron or horizontal bar above the long vowel, but this is  
> not generally done in regular texts."
>
> I guess you learn something new every day!
>
> BTW if you switch your keyboard to "U.S. Extended", You can get a  
> macron over a character by pressing Opt-a followed by the character.
>
> Gerd
>
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