Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:45:35 +0200
Thanks for the corrections; I should have looked for a key to the
conventions they use.
Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>
*— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:32 AM, "Jörg Knappen" <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
> *Von:* "Mark Davis [image: ☕]️" <mark_at_macchiato.com>
> *An:* "Unicode Public" <unicode_at_unicode.org>, "Unicode Book" <
> book_at_unicode.org>
> *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>
>
>
