On 01/08/2017 10:28 AM, Ken Springer wrote: > On 1/8/17 12:00 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 20:26:16 -0700 >> Ken Springer <snowshed1 at q.com> dijo: >> >>> Does anyone know of a font that has a downward pointing caret? This, >>>> , rotated 90? clockwise? >> >> This diacritic is used in a number of languages, but in each case only >> on certain letters, e.g., the great composer Dvo?ak. To type that >> character you need the character that has the r and its diacritic >> combined, i.e., once you know the Unicode number for the >> character+diacritic you just type it as one letter. As an example, an ? >> is Unicode E9, an ? is E8, and so on. >> >> There also exist 'combining diacriticals' which are just the >> diacritics, but offset so they will appear on top of the preceding >> character. These are trickier to use because not all letters are the >> same width, so getting the diacritic centered on the letter can take >> some finagling. >> >> At this point I should mention my favorite font Junicode because it has >> an excellent selection of letters with all kinds of included diacritics >> as well as a fairly complete set of combining diacriticals in case you >> need to make up one on your own. > > Hi, John, > > Combining diacriticals is relatively easy with my Mac keyboard. I've > been doing that for years for many words, such as r?sum?. I don't know > all of the diacriticals, so I don't know if the keyboard allows me to > use all of them. > > In my case, I need the downward pointing caret, also called inverted > circumflex, caron, and another name I can't remember at the moment, to > be a full separate character in the font. >
Look for Unicode 02c7 (0x02c7) Greg
