symbol sets and rattlesnake.

[Alan Knutson]

Congratrulations Carolyn,

My apologies, I was not familiar with the laptop situation, however I should
say that these characters are also available with Mac's.
I'm not familiar with Unix however.

Alan

ŒœŸªÝÞßàáâãäåæçþ    etc

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carolyn Quintero" <cqcqcq at pgtv.net>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: symbol sets and rattlesnake.


>
> -Š
> ŠŠŠ
> š
> ã
> æ
> ð
> ñ
> I would like to thank Brad Coon, and say that I worked on this problem for
a
> long time with several computer folks, and none were able to solve it for
> me.  Thanks a million, Brad.  Now, can I make macros to use these special
> characters in Outlook Express so I don't have to type in so many codes.  I
> do quite a bit of correspondence in Spanish and need the Spanish
> characters..upside down question mark and exclamation mark, enye, accented
> vowels, umlaut.
> BTW, since I'm on a laptop, ofcourse the number pad is activated by the Fn
> key.  Alt, Fn, +code gets the characters.
> Appreciatively,
> Carolyn
>
> Make sure your Numlock is on.  It does work on my Windows ME at home FWIW.
> Brad Coon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carolyn Quintero [mailto:cqcqcq at pgtv.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 12:47 PM
> To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
> Subject: Re: symbol sets and rattlesnake.
>
>
> Unfortunately, alt0138 gives nothing at all, nor do any of the other
> combinations, on my HP laptop.  So these codes don't work on my Windows ME
> machine, either in Outlook Express or in Word.
> Carolyn Q.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Knutson" <boris at terracom.net>
> To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 1:27 PM
> Subject: Re: symbol sets and rattlesnake.
>
>
> Available on any "Windows" machine are additional characters, these are
> typed by pressing the 'alt' key
> and a sequence of numbers:
>
> ie.
>
> alt0138     S
> alt0154     s
> alt0227     ã
> alt0240     ð
> alt0230     æ
> alt0241     ñ
>
> many more are available, this is just a sample.
>
> Alan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu>
> To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 10:43 AM
> Subject: RE: symbol sets and rattlesnake.
>
>
> >
> > I guess we'd best go back to the 26 letters of the English alphabet plus
> the
> > usual diacritics like ~ (tilde) and ^ (circumflex) for our net Siouan.
It
> > occurs to me that our European readers may not display $ as a dollar
sign
> > but rather as a Euro sign, pound sign or some other currency.  I guess
> I'll
> > go back to using ' for accent also.
> >
> > > The Miami-Illinois name for the Massasauga (the smaller of the two
> > species of rattlesnakes in that area) is /$iih$iikwia/ ($ = s-hacek).
> >
> > For what it's worth, s^ekki looks like a loan to me too.
> >
> > Kansa we'c?a s^ekku' (where u is u-umlaut).
> >
> > but Quapaw we's?a-xti  'snake+intensifier' "real snake".
> >
> > Bob
> >
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