{"id":40,"date":"2006-01-15T22:33:21","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T22:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/40"},"modified":"2014-04-11T22:38:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T21:38:46","slug":"diy-characters-or-extending-unicode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/40","title":{"rendered":"DIY characters or Extending Unicode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of problems I have with Unicode. First of all it can be very hard to find the character you want if it is out of the normal context. I am transcribing C17th documents and there are a few unusual characters that you need. &#8220;y&#8221; umlaut &ldquo;&yuml;&rdquo;  is one and a long &#8220;f&#8221; is another. The best match I have found scanning down all the alphabet groups is &fnof;, a florin symbol.<\/p>\n<p>The second problem that even though there are thousands of characters (glyphs) sometimes the one you want is not there. I need an &#8220;m&#8221; with a tilde over and &#8220;p&#8221; with a line through and, as far as I can tell, these don&#8217;t exist. There is, however, a range of what are called non-spacing characters which allow you to modify the preceding character, much as we used to use backspace in the old Teletype days. So &#8220;m&#8221; tilde can be created with &#8220;m&#8221; followed by &amp;#771; to give &ldquo;m&#771;&rdquo; and &#8220;p&#8221; line-through can be created with &#8220;p&#8221; followed by &amp;#817; (a low macron) to give &ldquo;p&#817;&rdquo;. Neither is perfect but it is the best that I seem to be able to do.<\/p>\n<p>An example of what can be done can be seen on the first page of <a href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/qsuff.htm\">Sufferings of the Quakers 1655&ndash;86<\/a>. The remaining pages will be finished off soon.<\/p>\n<p>(late note: Many apologies folks, but this only seems to work in Firefox, IE6 users get a little box after each character. Perhaps IE7 will be better \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of problems I have with Unicode. First of all it can be very hard to find the character you want if it is out of the normal context. I am transcribing C17th documents and there are a few unusual characters that you need. &#8220;y&#8221; umlaut &ldquo;&yuml;&rdquo; is one and a long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17,5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browsers","category-mac","category-technical","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}