Irish accents [Was: NYT on Daniel Cassidy ...]

[Wilson Gray]

Works for me on my museum-grade eMac.

-Wilson

On 11/13/07, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> I'm on a Mac, and actually haven't gotten all of
> the accents on Wilson's emails correctly, so let
> me test with this bit from a text test pattern
> (one of a few at
> http://www.harbeck.ca/James/texttest.html );
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> "Spé ál Ríst Sópl?" Lrú setsp lèr àstìçp, òlr
> Ùstes Pêlrâst sîôpl rûs tespëlräïst spö lür's
> tÿsp. Lr¦ såt ßip l¦ur es tespla, ristøus
> eplrestãsp. Liñ stõ
>
> That starts out with acute vowels until after
> setsp, then grave (with a c-cedilla in àstìçp),
> then circumflexes starting in Pêlrâst and umlauts
> from the second e in tespëlräïst, with an
> assortment thereafter -- you can check them
> against the web page (it's the second set).
>
> Does it come through?
>
>
> James Harbeck.
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