symbol sets

[David Costa]

Did you try alt-138, rather than alt-0138?

These are PC-ASCII codes; for those of us who use Macs, these won't work at
all.

In my experience, virtually ANY kind of special character -- even ordinary
ones like 'a-acute accent' -- can and probably will get mangled by being
passed through email, especially if it passes through some really different
types of servers or if it crosses international boundaries. So really, it
works best not to use any special characters in a venue like this and to
limit ourselves to ugly-but-safe things like 's^', 'u"' and 'e`'.

David



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>From: "Carolyn Quintero" <cqcqcq at pgtv.net>
>To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
>Subject: Re: symbol sets and rattlesnake.
>Date: Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 11:46 am
>

> 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

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