From: Toyin Ryan (Toyin.Ryan@morganstanley.com)
Date: Wed Oct 29 2003 - 11:11:51 CST
Thank you Philippe. The characters you detailed below only seem to work in Word.
They don't work in DBArtisan or netscape messenger or outlook. Do you have
anymore ideas?
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> The Unicode English name of the "hacek" character is "caron" (U+030C), and
> the "straight line above" is named "macron" (U+030A).
> Your word processor is probably inserting a decomposed caron or macron after
> the base letter it modifies.
>
> Did you try with the precomposed characters?
>
> C with Hacek:
> U+010C C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CARON
> U+010D c LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON
> E with Hacek:
> U+011A E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CARON
> U+011B e LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CARON
> A with "straight line" above
> U+0100 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
> U+0101 A LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON
> U with "straight line" above
>
> U+016A U LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH MACRON
> U+016B u LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH MACRON
>
> The above characters are the composed canonical equivalent in NFC form, and
> they correspond to the caracters that are mapped in the ISO Latin 2
> character set, which does not contain the separate combining characters
> (this may explain why they disappear: your database is not internally
> created with Unicode, but with the Latin2 character set)
>
> Check also your SQL client library encoding parameter: the database may
> think you're not using the correct character set. This may be a problem with
> your DBArtisan tool, if it internally connects to the Sybase engine and
> specifies the wrong charset.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Toyin Ryan
> To: unicode@unicode.org
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:32 AM
> Subject: Hacek - Typing from a keyboard... Help!!!!
>
> I am trying to type the 'hacek' diacritic mark above 'c' and 'e' and
> also a straight line (not a tilda) above characters too.
> The hacek is a diacritic mark used in the Czech and Lithuanian
> languages. It looks like an upside-down circumflex or a pointed
> breve-essentially a small "v" over the letter.
> Please can you tell me what keys on the key pad I should use.
> I am aware that if you are in Word 2002 (Windows XP) you can use the
> following:
> small c with hacek = 010D + Alt x
> small e with hacek = 011B + Alt x
> small a with straight line = 0101 + Alt x
> small u with straight line = 016B + Alt x
> However, I want to type these charcarters in a tool called 'Embarcadero
> DBArtisan, version 7' in order to put the characters in a Sybase Database.
> When I currently type the characters in Word and then try to paste them in
> DBArtisan the hacek disappears.
> Please can someone help!!!!
> Many Thanks
> Toyin Ryan
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