Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/-į̄
Latest comment: 11 years ago by Metaknowledge
This looks terrible. Can't we use a combining macron? Unicode, I tell you, Unicode. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 03:02, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
- Unicode has no single symbol for an i with macron and ogonek. —CodeCat 10:22, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
- I know. I meant ı̨̄ (if you're a Unicode geek like me, you'll recognise that as 0131+0304+0328). —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 00:53, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
- Doesn't the server automatically convert that anyway? I think Unicode has some kind of canonical representation for such combinations. —CodeCat 23:44, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
- Convert to what? To get the facts stright, on the current pagetitle I see both the dot and the macron; on the one I typed I only see a macron. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "canonical representation". Isn't something that looks right better than something that doesn't? —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 23:56, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
- As far as I know, when different diacritics are combined, Unicode prescribes how such combinations are to be encoded. I think that the current representation (i-ogonek with combining macron) is the proper representation, because Unicode specifies that the ogonek takes "precedence" over the macron or something like that. If that doesn't appear right on your system, then that is a problem with your font rendering, the encoding is Unicode-correct. I don't see a dot on the i, it's properly hidden. —CodeCat 02:03, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
- OK. What will an average user see, I wonder? —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 15:25, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
- As far as I know, when different diacritics are combined, Unicode prescribes how such combinations are to be encoded. I think that the current representation (i-ogonek with combining macron) is the proper representation, because Unicode specifies that the ogonek takes "precedence" over the macron or something like that. If that doesn't appear right on your system, then that is a problem with your font rendering, the encoding is Unicode-correct. I don't see a dot on the i, it's properly hidden. —CodeCat 02:03, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
- Convert to what? To get the facts stright, on the current pagetitle I see both the dot and the macron; on the one I typed I only see a macron. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "canonical representation". Isn't something that looks right better than something that doesn't? —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 23:56, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
- Doesn't the server automatically convert that anyway? I think Unicode has some kind of canonical representation for such combinations. —CodeCat 23:44, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
- I know. I meant ı̨̄ (if you're a Unicode geek like me, you'll recognise that as 0131+0304+0328). —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 00:53, 16 May 2013 (UTC)