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."

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/diacritics-in-emacs

#Emacs #Diacritics #Characters #TextEntry #Editors

Seeing the discussion on #diacritics , 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.

power of contextual alternates

#typography #calt #diacritics

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.

#conlang #diacritics #critics-of-diacritics

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

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

#typography #fonts #languages #diacritics

"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.

https://www.metafilter.com/198114/The-Stink-A

#macron #diacritics #pronunciation #meaning #typography #fonts #Maori #language #NewZealand #inclusion #IndigenousPeople

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

https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/24-01-2023/the-side-eye-the-stink-a

#Diacritics
#Diacrits
#Font
#Fonts
#Māori
#Language

On the topic of macrons (◌̄, ¯, ¯: one of the #diacritics featured in the major latinization systems for #Ottoman Turkish, hence used e.g. in our https://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: https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/24-01-2023/the-side-eye-the-stink-a. Thanks @klim for sharing #encoding #typography

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

#Diacritics is important, not only in the #Slovak #language.

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

#langtoot (new official hashtag used by 🦣 #languagelearners)