Re: Combining character example

On 4/16/2015 3:45 AM, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote:
> Thanks for the corrections; I should have looked for a key to the
> conventions they use.
>
>
It's clear why they would not want to use the HTML underline.

The additional information is content, not style.

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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:32 AM, "Jörg Knappen" <jknappen_at_web.de
> <mailto:jknappen_at_web.de>> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
> the use of DOT BELOW and LINE BELOW is in fact consistent in
> German Duden. The
> difference in the diacritics is used to denote length of the
> stressed vowel, DOT BELOW
> denotes a short vowel and LINE BELOW denotes a long vowel.
> Diphthongs are always long and there is a single line under the
> whole Diphthong.
> Digraphs (e.g. the "ou" in words borrowed from French) also have
> either a single line
> under the whole digraph or (this happens rarely) a single dot in
> the middle of the
> digraph.
> --Jörg Knappen
> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 16. April 2015 um 10:01 Uhr
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> *Betreff:* Combining character example
> I happened to run across a good example of productive use of
> combining marks, the Duden site (a great online dictionary for
> German). They use U+0323 ( ̣) COMBINING DOT BELOW to indicate the
> stress. Here is an example:
> ụnterbuttern
> http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/unterbuttern
> They aren't, however, consistent; you also see underlining for stress.
>
> e̲i̲nschränken
>
> But not, interestingly, with the HTML underline, but with U+0332 (
> ̲ ) COMBINING LOW LINE.
> Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>
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Received on Thu Apr 16 2015 - 11:24:15 CDT