Thank you for the links, Steve. Very informative. I checked this Eth the same way in Wikipedia "eth (letter)" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth_%28letter%29) and that one displayed correctly with me (automatic language settings in FireFox).
I especially ejoyed reading the link in the page http://briem.ismennt.is/2/2.1a/2.1.1.thorn.and.eth.htm referring to the sort order of Thorn: http://www.evertype.com/standards/wynnyogh/thorn.html. It is almost a full treatise about the western alphabets through the history. I had forgotten about the sort order being agreed on in 1994. Bodvar On 8/29/07, Steve Rickaby <srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote: > At 20:51 +0000 28/8/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > > >And to complicate things further, the eth and thorn and even an accented y > >(which are all parts of the extended ASCII) seem to FrameMaker just as some > >space character when it comes to hyphenating. > > 'Eth' and 'thorn' are letter names in Icelandic? That's interesting: they are > in Anglo-Saxon too. > > For anyone interested: > <http://briem.ismennt.is/2/2.1a/2.1.1.thorn.and.eth.htm> > > Also <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9E> > > Why mention the Wikipedia entry? Well, apart from being informative, it uses > the thorn - apparently a real thorn - in its URL. Shows up nicely here on a > Mac ;-) > Sadly, Wikipedia's URL for eth just uses 'eth'. > > -- > Steve [irrelevant fact hound] >