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<font size=3>For those who have refrained from sending accented letters
of Irish, I suspect there is no problem. Every software package
these days, I'm sure, supports the so-called "Western European"
character set (ISO 8859.1), which claims to support Irish. If<br>
one displays expanded email headers, one will usually see:<br>
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"<br>
(Note that one does not need to send styled -- HTML -- text to enable
this group of accented letters.)<br><br>
This character set allows acute, grave, circumflex, tilde,
dieresis/umlaut, and ring above with the usual suspects (as well as other
necessary characters such as c-cedilla, eth, thorn, and sharp s).
As in:<br><br>
à á â ã ä [etc.]<br><br>
With MS Windows, one can construct such characters by choosing the
"United States - International" keyboard and typing the accent
followed by the letter. This can be switched on and off character
by character.<br><br>
Joel<br><br>
At 11/13/2007 02:48 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Here's another troubling example
from Cassidy's book (there's no shortage of them): On p. 90 he derives
"shot" of "big shot" ("a very influential,
important person,...") from the Irish forms "Seod"
(accent aigu over -o-), "Sead" (accent aigu over -e-), and
"Sead" (accent aigu over -a-), which he defines (citing two
Irish dictionaries) as "a jewel; fig. a (big) chief, a
warrior, a hero, a valiant person."</font></blockquote></body>
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