Soh Kam Yung · @sohkamyung
713 followers · 18196 posts · Server mstdn.io

TIL how to enter a special character (š) in Emacs using the character composition method:

"To get a list of all available character compositions type C-x 8 C-h."

masteringemacs.org/article/dia

#emacs #diacritics #characters #textentry #editors

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Mim · @crinolinerobot
138 followers · 861 posts · Server bytetower.social

Seeing the discussion on , it’s worth noting that in print many western fonts don’t have them. In the past when publications I’ve worked on have been redesigned I’ve asked for one with as full a range of diacritics as possible to be chosen for the body font, but even so they’ve come up wanting.

Hopefully expanding the fonts is something font suppliers will work on.

#diacritics

Last updated 1 year ago

glukfonts · @glukfonts
38 followers · 14 posts · Server typo.social

power of contextual alternates

#typography #calt #diacritics

Last updated 1 year ago

Alistair Young · @cerebrate
120 followers · 1332 posts · Server social.arkane-systems.net

Today I should like to offer a shout-out to the Vietnamese alphabet, which stands as an eternal reproach to everyone who claims that you can in fact sprinkle too many accents on your conlang.

-of-diacritics

#conlang #diacritics #critics

Last updated 1 year ago

sportsfonts · @sportsfonts
195 followers · 51 posts · Server typo.social

The characters of Competition, with random values for width, slant, and inline weight.

Of course it supports the non-Eurocentric Latin S character set:
github.com/koeberlin/Latin-Cha

#typography #fonts #languages #diacritics

Last updated 2 years ago

MetaFilter · @metafilter
453 followers · 65 posts · Server mefi.social

"The System Can't Handle Her Real Name"

Etrigan has posted "The Side Eye: The Stink A," linking to The Spinoff's really well-done and fascinating infographic on "the glitchy macron" that highlights how font decisions and usage can have an outsized impact on non-Anglo populations.

metafilter.com/198114/The-Stin

#macron #diacritics #pronunciation #meaning #typography #fonts #maori #language #newzealand #inclusion #IndigenousPeople

Last updated 2 years ago

Lilysea · @Lilysea
301 followers · 1794 posts · Server aus.social

A cartoon about the harm it causes when web fonts and IT programs can't cope with Māori diacritics (the line over the vowel)

thespinoff.co.nz/atea/24-01-20






#diacritics #diacrits #font #fonts #maori #language

Last updated 2 years ago

QhoD · @qhod
6 followers · 2 posts · Server fedihum.org

On the topic of macrons (◌̄, ¯, ¯: one of the featured in the major latinization systems for Turkish, hence used e.g. in our github.com/QHOD/ota-keyboard input method), we learn from a nice editorial cartoon that those matter in other languages as well, namely for Māori: thespinoff.co.nz/atea/24-01-20. Thanks @klim for sharing

#diacritics #Ottoman #encoding #typography

Last updated 2 years ago

butterflyoffire :autumnleaf2: · @ButterflyOfFire
1071 followers · 15057 posts · Server mstdn.fr

And it seems that Mastodon or Firefox is cutting some letters in arabic. ي ى

#diacritics

Last updated 2 years ago

Miroslav Šedivý · @eumiro
196 followers · 152 posts · Server mas.to

is important, not only in the .

There's no such word “stat”? Did you mean:

stať - to stop; a written article
stať sa - to become; to happen
sťať - to cut down (e.g. tree or head)
sťať sa - to drink too much
stáť - to stand; to cost money
štát - state/country
šťať - to pee

(new official hashtag used by 🦣 )

#languagelearners #langtoot #language #slovak #diacritics

Last updated 2 years ago