LOS ANGELES Pioneering UCLA linguistics professor Peter Ladefoged has died. He was 80. Ladefoged died Tuesday at a London hospital after getting sick while on...
I just stumbled across something that may interest some people here. It also may be very old news to those people, but it's new to me. There's a Yahoo! group...
SIL International is pleased to announce the official release of the Charis SIL Unicode fonts (http://scripts.sil.org/CharisSILfont). Charis SIL provides a...
hi, i am shahrzad from iran, i study graphics in iran. my final projest is: relations amonge letters and meening. ana i supposed to research about new...
... Question 1: There is no relation between individual letters and meaning. Question 2: Here in the West, very little information about Arabic/Persian/Islamic...
I'm wondering: Is Roozbeh Pournader still subscribed to Qalam? Regards, nb -- Nicholas Bodley [{(<>)}] Waltham, Mass. Free software tools for Windows -- worth...
Being from non-rhotic Boston, where I would pahk the cahh in havahd yahd, and being a descendant of a non-rhotic brooklyner from thoity thoid shtreet, I guess...
... When you posted, Yahoo was struggling to cope with the effects of a virus - see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yg-alerts/message/6 for details. Messages...
... AFAIK, he's not been here since 2004. I'm from the FarsiWeb Project too and the maintainer of farsifonts package. I can give him your message. -- ' '...
Because there isn't any link between letters and meaning, didn't stop people imagine it. So if you're looking at this sort of connection, following is a...
Dear friend: thank you for this useful reply. i think my bad english make people not to understand what i was talking about. maybe i should use say WORDS &...
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:02:36 -0500, utc19700417 <atanasiu@...> wrote a delightfully-scholarly message. (Thank you!) ... Students of Japanese should know...
New Tai Lue final consonants differ from the base consonants by a small circle at the bottom right, generally connected to the rest of the consonant by a small...
I saw this stamp (these stamps?) on the wall of where my kids go for late-stay after school until we can pick them up. I found a picture of it online to show...
If downloading and reading the scanned book/article on Visible Speech that I announced here a few weeks ago was too much for you, you might want to take a look...
... Looking at the reference glyphs, those with descenders (NG, N, M, D) have just an extra loop at the end of the descender; those without descenders (V, K,...
Richard: I've been checking through my materials and the consonant coda-final distinctions are definitely from the recommendations made by the Dai Le Script...
... Thanks for the reply, viz (omitting the Chinese, replacing the Tai Lue letters with their abbreviated Uniocde names, and removing the vowel diacritics): ...
I realize this script has been discussed quite a bit on this list in the past, but some might be interested in a small item I ran across on the Language...
When MSWord makes an (ugly) arrow when you type -->, where does it get it from? It's not the (much nicer) Symbol arrow, and when you choose it, it just claims...
... If the current font is a Unicode font, perhaps the arrow is U+2192 or U+279D. -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/ "How'd ya like to climb this high...
... You could try cutting and pasting some text including that character into a plain text editor such as Notepad and see if it is preserved. Another thing you...
... You can get rid of the MSWord rule that does this under Tools / Autocorrect Options / Autocorrect tab and down where it's got "Replace as you type" there...
... I _want_ it to do that. It's a lot quicker than switching fonts every time I need an arrow. I also use the underscore-before-and-after to get italics --...
The arrow is a character with the code 224 (decimal) from the Wingdings font. With kind regards, Primoz ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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