Comments | elirrina: oh HELP! and norman oppression

elirrina

oh HELP! and norman oppression

Feb 07, 2009 14:32

Does anyone reading this know how to use Junicode? I need to be able to type in Anglo-Saxon, and I can figure out the ash, but I cannot for the life of me find the wyn or the thorn. And the directions make no sense whatsoever, and they're not even proper directions ( Read more... )

blasted normans, i love you robin hood!, oo-de-lally!, technical difficulties, homework, medievalists are crazy

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last_archangel February 7 2009, 20:04:53 UTC

Oh my God, honey, I really need to metaquotes you on that one.

elirrina February 7 2009, 20:20:09 UTC

Ooh, I've heard of that, but I've never been on it.

last_archangel February 7 2009, 20:22:01 UTC

Here is the post; comments should follow. They can get terribly funny and even sometimes profound.

elirrina February 7 2009, 20:50:17 UTC

Hee hee! I like your context line. We actually do sporadically plot to overthrow the Normans. This is why it's dangerous to allow medievalists to share flats.

oloriel February 7 2009, 20:50:09 UTC

Here via metaquotes. I have to admit that I usually cheat when I need special characters (as in, open Word, INSERT -> SYMBOLS -> scroll list until you find the character you need, somewhere among "Latin Extended" or whatever they call it in English Word).

Or you could use html (thorn; or THORN; with an ampersand in front of the name of the letter should give you þ or Þ for example) and copy the text from, say, your LJ to your writing program of choice.

In Unicode, Þ is U+00DE, þ is U+00FE; Ȝ is U+021C, ȝ is U+021D; Ð is U+00D0; ð is U+00F0; Ƿ is U+01F7, ƿ is U+01BF.

... if your browser doesn't support the wonky characters, this comment is going to look rather stupid. Bloody Normans indeed.

Aaanyway, unfortunately I have no idea just how Unicode works, so I can only wish you the best of luck?

elirrina February 7 2009, 20:51:59 UTC

Thank you!! I'll have to try those out. Honestly, I was just hoping it was going to be a normal font that you plug in and run with.

oloriel February 7 2009, 20:56:20 UTC

Perhaps you could convince your keyboard that it is, in fact, Icelandic? That way you'd still have problems with the Wynn and Yogh, but at least Thorn, Eth and Ash would be taken care of...

The Insert Symbol bit isn't so bad actually (if your writing software of choice offers that option). After a while it's all copy and paste anyway...

elirrina February 7 2009, 20:58:52 UTC

Yes, that's one of the things that a website suggested, and I'm trying it. For some reason, I can select Icelandic from my international input menu, but then it won't let me type in it. I'm going to keep trying.

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here via MQ ineptshieldmaid February 14 2009, 02:28:04 UTC

My advice is: go insert - symbol etc, sift through and find the symbols you need, and then set new keyboard shortcuts for them. The ashes, for example, are quite some way down (below all the symbols with upside down ^s on top). Having found them, not the 'shortcut key' option at the bottom of the insert screen. Click that and assign something logical - I think mine used to be alt-a-e, but somehow they've deleted themselves from Word.

Re: here via MQ ineptshieldmaid February 14 2009, 02:30:07 UTC

eta- oops, it's the ashes with dashes above them which are way down the list. I needed those for something once.