LL-L "Help needed" 2004.08.26 (06) [E]

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From: Andy (Scots-Online) <andy at scots-online.org>
Subject: LL-L "Help needed" 2004.08.24 (12) [E]

Roger Hondshoven 2 wrote

> I suppose you mean what is called "postalveolars" in the IPA Help chart.
The
> voiceless variant looks like a kind of standing snake with a curl to the
> right at the top and a curl to the left at the bottom. The voiced
consonant
> is z with a leftcurving hook at the bottom. I hope you get the idea.

Do you mean z̡ or z̧ ? (I hope the Unicode works)

Various conributions have led me to believe that the symbols for palatalized
alveolar [s] and [z] (
Similar to [ʃ] and [ʒ]) are [ɕ] vl alveolopalatal fricative and [ʑ] vd
alveolopalatal fricative

> I have been trying to use IPA characters in my postings to Lowlands, but
> without success. I seem to remember having read somewhere that Unicode
> supports the SilDoulos IPA characters, but I have never been able to use
> them in any posting. It would be a blessing if we could use them.

The SilDoulos IPA font has to be the Unicode version available at
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=DoulosSILfont

Apparently it is possible to insert unicode into a Word document by putting
NUM LOCK on and then holding down the ALT key while typing the Unicode
character value on the number pad. I have tried this but it seldom returned
the character I expected. I just inserted them by choosing Insert > Special
character etc. These characters can then be copied an pasted into an email.

Thanks to all who answered,

Andy Eagle

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