Doug Ewell posted:
Tsk tsk. This is the Unicode list. ALL characters are special.
Quite true, except in a some particular context.
Note that I did not use the word "special" in my own explanations.
It appeared only in the quotations I supplied from the OED website.
For an example of valid use
Jim Allan wrote:
> 2. Enter your search terms in the boxes in the usual way, except that
> if the word you are looking for contains an accented letter or other
> special character, enter its name instead of its plain letter
> equivalent, e.g. type caf#eacu# to find café.
Tsk tsk. This is the Un
Noah Levitt posted in response to my indication that one could search
for special symbols in the on-line OED:
How can one?
The symbols available at
http://dictionary.oed.com/public/help/Advanced/symbols.htm are
"searchable special characters used in the OED."
The method to be used is explaine
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:30:30 -0400, Jim Allan wrote:
>
> One can quickly search for these symbols in the OED web edition.
How can one?
Noah
Jarkko posted:
Yes, I can understand that having to browse through the whole of OED to find out
where e.g. the hypolemniscus is being used sounds a little bit, uhm, tedious...
One can quickly search for these symbols in the OED web edition.
That is actually what the page I cited is for, to give
At 10:00 AM 6/9/03 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It also appears along with other symbols used in the OED at
> http://dictionary.oed.com/public/help/Advanced/symbols.htm#mod1letter.
> (Again, not all these symbols are currently part of Unicode.)
To state the obvious (and "random email does not
> - what is the symbol used for [most lists are silent on this question]
Yes, I can understand that having to browse through the whole of OED to find out
where e.g. the hypolemniscus is being used sounds a little bit, uhm, tedious...
> - what is the symbol not used for [a subtle but importantly d
> It also appears along with other symbols used in the OED at
> http://dictionary.oed.com/public/help/Advanced/symbols.htm#mod1letter.
> (Again, not all these symbols are currently part of Unicode.)
To state the obvious (and "random email does not official character proposals make")
Unicode havi
Asmus Freytag posted:
I keep coming across a letterlike symbol based on the letter p. In going
through my collections, I found it listed in a table of symbols in an
excerpt from the US Government Printing office style manual from 1984.
That symbol is named 'per'
The _per_ sign can also be found (a
From: "Lukas Pietsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >I was hoping to find someone who had additional evidence for this
> character.
>
> I happened to come across it the other day in a modern printed edition
> of 17th- to 19th century handwritten English letters (Miller, Kerby
> A., Arnold Schrier, Bruce
> >I was hoping to find someone who had additional evidence for this
character.
I happened to come across it the other day in a modern printed edition
of 17th- to 19th century handwritten English letters (Miller, Kerby
A., Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, & David N. Doyle. 2002. _Irish
immigrants
Asmus Freytag wrote:
>
> I keep coming across a letterlike symbol based on the letter p. In going
> through my collections, I found it listed in a table of symbols in an
> excerpt from the US Government Printing office style manual from 1984.
> [...]
>
> Can anyone shed further light on this charac
At 18:13 -0700 2003-06-06, Asmus Freytag wrote:
I was hoping to find someone who had additional evidence for this character.
I might but I am travelling.
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At 01:34 AM 6/7/03 +0200, Philippe Verdy wrote:
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From: "Asmus Freytag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Can anyone shed further light on this character? I assume this is a lower
> case form, does anyone care to confirm that?
Isn't your "per" symbol it similar to the form variant of
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