Re: Off topic: type (ME letter "Yogh")

[Emery Snyder emery.snyder@xxxxxxxx]

That's all quite interesting. I recently made a chart with the
values for the more common character sets, and I can't figure out
which one that one is. Can you tell me the values for 192 through 199?


On 6.2.2003, Patricia M Godfrey wrote:
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> Preliminary report (because I haven't had time for more thorough
> investigation; the labeling machine at the office broke down and we had
> to affix some 1,000 mailing labels by hand yesterday and another 900
> today): I called up CHARSET in XyWin, put it into snaking columns to save
> paper, loaded Plantin, and printed a few pages (those with more of the
> letter, as opposed to box-drawing, characters). Lowercase yogh turned up
> at 344 (which CHARSET IDs as cap S caron. Most of the rest matched their
> assigned values, with a few interesting variants: 157 (Yen sign) is a
> sort of half-cedilla; 159 (florin sign), another medieval letter that I
> cannot id off the top of my head right now; 171 (one-quarter) is the same
> character uppercase. I'll have to print out the whole megillah, I
> suppose, and give it a careful read. But how wonderful of XyW to tell us
> what its characters are! Unlike other word processors, which give you a
> whole table full of "things"--some of which look exactly alike (e.g.
> Cyrillic cap V and roman cap B)--with no clue to their provenance.
> Patricia

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