Citations:diacriticked

English citations of diacriticked

• 1989: “Greg Lee”, comp.lang.postscript (Google group): Font tweaking, the 5^th day of September at 3:15pm

  I have a first draft done of a system, based on Soeker’s approach, which constructs Microsoft Word initialization files with diacriticked fonts prepared from a specification file.

• 1992: “Dan Tilque”, alt.usage.english (Google group): circumflex help needed (was: dieresis help needed), the 25^th day of March at 9:26am

  My comment on getting a French terminal was aimed more at the keyboard, with extra keys for the diacriticked letters.

• 1997: “Extreme Toaster, With Prejudice”, comp.fonts (Google group): What about scandinavian alphabet?, the 29^th day of September at 8 o’clock a.m.

  Sounds like you are trying to use shareware fonts. The ones I downloaded in my initial spate of enthusiasm a couple of years ago were usually missing a lot of the diacriticked characters such as those you mention.

• 1999: “Rodger Whitlock”, sci.lang (Google group): How to type foreign characters, the 23^rd day of June at 8 o’clock a.m.

  Windows has (or had!) a “US-International” driver that converted some keys to dead keys, facilitating the entry of diacriticked characters.

• 1999, November: Richard Laurent, Past participles from Latin to Romance, page 469 (illustrated edition; University of California Press Publications in Linguistics, 133; →ISBN, 9780520098329)

  Various symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet, or from national schools of transcription, have been replaced by diacriticked Latin letters.

• 2003: “Dan Tilque”, sci.lang (Google group): Sorting order for Latin based alphabets, the 2^nd day of March at 12:44pm

  I’ve been googling for the languages individually (for instance the link below has the sorting order for Czech), but for some languages, I can’t seem to find it at all (Romanian, for example). That’s not to say I can’t find their alphabet, but some languages (as Czech) sort some of the diacriticked letters as separate letters and others a variants of the base letter. This kind of info is hard to find.