Kihchi-maarsii pur toń repońs, Bill! Thanks for your response, Bill!<br><br>So, I guess that our present way of using <ń> really is still perhaps the best (read easiest) compromise for our orthographic purposes? Or, is it simply a matter of educating myself (and other potential users of the orthography) on the process (key strokes necessary) to produce the character when writing? Is there a simple way to program a key to produce the character when hit once (using shift or control or whatever)? Or, will it always take a couple of key strokes?<br>
<br>Eekoshi kihtwaam.<br>Heather<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:48 PM, William J Poser <<a href="mailto:wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu">wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Heather,<br>
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Unicode does not encode n with a slash through it as a single codepoint,<br>
but it does have slash as a combining character. In fact, it has two:<br>
U+0337 COMBINING SHORT SOLIDUS OVERLAY<br>
U+0338 COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY<br>
(The forward slash is called "solidus" in Unicode-speak.)<br>
<br>
So, you can get a lower-case n overlaid by a long slash by entering<br>
first the n and then U+0338. They are two separate codepoints but will<br>
be rendered by Unicode-aware software as the single character you want.<br>
<br>
Because this is treated as a sequence of two "characters" in Unicode,<br>
you may have to do something special to get your sort order the<br>
way you want it. Such things are a little easier if you can get what you<br>
want as a single codepoint, but the Unicode Consortium is reluctant<br>
to add single codepoints for things that can be composed from existing<br>
combining characters.<br>
<br>
Bill<br>
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