It seems to be appearing more often in advertising typography as a stylish replacement for [A]. I first noticed it in the logo for the KIA (ΚΙΛ) car. ( I...
... IIRC, they did indeed use a short crossbar in Greece, though it didn't span all the way from one leg to the other. (I think it started on the left leg and...
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:02:41 -0400, Philip Newton ... This kind of info has a great deal of appeal for me! Thank you, indeed. I spent some time at the Greek...
Even though text messaging allows for the use of all sorts of shorthand & spell-as-it-sounds conventions like nite for night, tho for though, BRB, BTW, and the...
Philip Newton wrote ... a stylish ... (ΚΙΛ) car. ... Well, Kia are well known for their weird spellings, such as "Sorento" with a single R, or...
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:47:48 -0400, Marco Cimarosti ... I've had the same thought for some time, seeing the logo and saying "Kil" to myself sotto voce. (How...
... Character 0xCB (decimal 203) is Lambda in ISO-8859-7/Windows-1253 but E-diaeresis in ISO-8859-1/Windows-1252; I'm sure the reason is related to that. -- ...
... This reminds me that some hyper-sensitive people complained that the name KIA is offensive to war veterans (particularly those of the Korean War) because...
... company's ... "Kil" ... I say it to myself that way as well. As Adecco displays its name with a final medial sigma, I tend to read its name as a drawled...
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:15:37 -0400, Philip Newton ... Thank you! Sorry for a delayed acknowledgment. Best regards, -- Nicholas Bodley Waltham, Mass. The weapon...
I was looking at some Thai crosswords, and I wondered what scripts people do crosswords in. In Thai crosswords, the items in the squares are preposed vowels,...
... Hebrew crosswords work as you might expect, with just the consonants. Since spelling isn't completely fixed in Hebrew, clues sometimes will note that a...
I need a Unicode font for Armenian. Unfortunately _every_ usable Armenian font I find at various sites omits the Armenian letter lower-case h; they simply...
Peter, ... I know nothing about Armenian, but this page has a number of Armenian fonts on it: http://chanae.walon.org/pub/ttf/armenian/ I looked at erevan.zip...
Thank you -- I hadn't found that page. It's amusing that its contact language for roman-readers is ... Romanian! grginor is the only one on the page that...
I don't think I've ever seen Walloon orthography. I believe I've just seen your name, though, while I've been hunting for Unicode fonts. -- Peter T. Daniels...
I've downloaded several fonts that are supposed to include Glagolitic according to the new Unicode standard 5.0 or even 5.1, and I cannot see them, either in...
The use of combining diacritics with a script is dependent on Uniscribe supporting the appropriate features for the scripts required. Word is OpenType savvy...
... Since Andrew answered the other question, I'll try this one. I have found that Windows Character map on XP and Office 2003 only recognize blocks that were...
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:05:17 -0400, Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> ... Note the word "pådje"; that seems to be Wallonian. I tried Wikipedia, first, and saw...
No, at some link from the "Japanese Unicode Gallery," the one that didn't know about the page of Armenian fonts, to some download source or other. -- Peter T....
Ishida doesn't have a "picker" for Glagolitic, but I found his master utility that provides far more information about penguins than anyone could possibly...
To add to Lorna's comments, its the same on Vista. Essentially Windows Character Map is limited to a subset of the BMP. You many want to look at alternative...
For those who are unaware, I guess Peter is referring to UniView http://rishida.net/scripts/uniview/?block=glagolitic Just thought I'd check that you're aware...
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