symbol sets and rattlesnake.

[Carolyn Quintero]

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
>