symbol sets and rattlesnake.

[Carolyn Quintero]

-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
>