Qechua-Aymara script?!

2004-07-05 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
A cuple of strange symbols captioning scanned doodles of flags, at http://www.quechuanetwork.org/pusisuyo.cfm?yanantin=yachay_10&lang=s Direct link to images: http://www.quechuanetwork.org/images/wiphalas/wiphala_blanca.gif http://www.quechuanetwork.org/images/wiphalas/wiphala7colores.gif http://ww

[OT] Dutch letters was [Fwd: Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ?]

2004-07-05 Thread Patrick Andries
Patrick Andries a écrit : http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/french.pdf Several remarks : ü seems not be be listed (see « würmien », « le würm », « argüer» now acceptable according to a recent spelling reform). Population of France is now 61,7 millions (including around 1,7 millions French citiz

Error in Hangul composition code

2004-07-05 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
says: int SIndex = last - SBase; if (0 <= SIndex && SIndex < SCount && (SIndex % TCount) == 0) { int TIndex = ch - TBase; if (0 <= TIndex && TIndex <= TCount) { // make syllable of

Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ?

2004-07-05 Thread Ted Hopp
On Monday, July 05, 2004 7:52 AM, António Martins-Tuválkin wrote: > From Spanish "cañón"? I'm sure there's an excellent reason to "keep" > the tilde but trash the acute... ;-) Possibly because, in Spanish, the accent simply indicates which syllable carries the stress (not otherwise changing the pr

Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ?

2004-07-05 Thread Antoine Leca
On Monday, July 05, 2004 1:52 PM Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin va escriure: > From Spanish "cañón"? I'm sure there's an excellent reason to "keep" > the tilde but trash the acute... ;-) Yes: acute has a different meaning in French orthography (denotes a closed vowel, and can occur twice) than it has

Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ?

2004-07-05 Thread Patrick Andries
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin a écrit : On 2004.07.04, 19:50, Cristian Secarã <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I looked at different other sources and found no other mention about this character as being used for French language (however, my search was not exhaustive). Some French locales may includ

Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ?

2004-07-05 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2004.07.04, 19:50, Cristian Secarã <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked at different other sources and found no other mention about > this character as being used for French language (however, my search > was not exhaustive). Some French locales may include "ñ" to serve the needs of one of th

Re: Looking for transcription or transliteration standards latin->arabic

2004-07-05 Thread busmanus
busmanus wrote: Philipp Reichmuth wrote: If we were starting from scratch today, we'd probably do better. (I hope we would retain the "v" sound in "ÐÐÑÐÐÐ" instead of converting it to "f".) Except there is no "v sound", only an "f sound" in the Russian pronunciation of ÐÐÑÐÐÐ due to regre