> A propos of this long thread about display of combining macrons in
> Middle English, morphing from tildes on vowels:
> ...
> Please note that both the UTC and WG2 have approved a new set
> of combining double accents:
>
> U+035D COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE
> U+035E COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON
> U+035F COMBINING DOUBLE LOW LINE
>
> for various transcriptions, including common English dictionary
> pronunciation guide usages.
>
Very a propos, I've added this info to the page.
> P.S. I'm getting fine display of all the combining marks for
> the St. Erkenwald test page with
> MSIE 6.0 running on Windows NT 4.0 (!) with Arial Unicode MS --
> only the yoghs are missing. So I'm not sure what the problem
> is that people are having on Windows XP.
>
MSIE 6.0 on my Windows XP doesn't list Arial Unicode MS as a
choice. Anyway thanks to all who commented, I keep making little
corrections to this as well as the "I can eat glass" page, between
them now almost a full-time hobby.
- Frank
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