FW: possessive constructions in siouan

Alan H. Hartley ahartley at d.umn.edu
Fri Feb 11 15:34:40 UTC 2005


Alfred W. Tüting wrote:

> It's done nicely, yet typing in a longer text, say in Lakota, is quite
> cumbersome. I did it with some Yidish below, but am quite unsure whether
> or not you will be able to read it under html encoding. It's from right
> to left but after copy paste, this format is not at all sufficient
> regarding right alignment. (I usually am using a script I wrote for Mac
> SILKey which with regard to typing in longer texts is much more
> comfortable. I also tried to do that for Dakota but for unknown reasons
> failed in addressing the different special characters - maybe because
> SILKey doesn't support Unicode?).

For me, the Yiddish shows up as ????? Maybe you sent your message as
plain (ascii) text rather than as HTML. (You have to set your email
program to compose in HTML, and of course, your recipients have to have
an HTML-compatible mail program too.)

Alan



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