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11/05/2011 02:38:39 PM · #1 |
Not photography related, but this site is so multicultural, I know it's the right place to ask.
I manage a number of electronic journals, and I have discovered quite a few errors involving using carons instead of circumflexes on some characters.
There are too many errors for me to check each one, so I'm trying to come up with "global" assumptions that will let me program a filter to make more sweeping changes.
QUESTIONS:
If I read this Wikipedia article correctly, is it safe to assume:
- the caron is not used in French (except for foreign words or names?)
- it is not used in Italian?
- it is not used in German?
If there are a few exceptions to the above, and you can list them, I can program around them. THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!
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11/05/2011 02:46:40 PM · #2 |
Originally posted by Neil:
- the caron is not used in French (except for foreign words or names?)
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Correct. No exception outside of foreign names. |
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11/05/2011 02:48:03 PM · #3 |
According to my friend the linguist, it's only used in Baltic, Slavic and Finno-Lappic languages.
I've never seen it in French or Italian.
Message edited by author 2011-11-05 14:49:18. |
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11/05/2011 03:04:07 PM · #4 |
Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!
That's great...makes it easier to fix. |
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11/05/2011 03:10:35 PM · #5 |
| Not used in Polish either. I thought it was mainly in Czech language. |
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11/05/2011 04:32:44 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Neil:
- it is not used in German?
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Correct.
German has three "Umlaut"s (the double dot over a, o and u) plus a weird letter that represents a double s, but no caron. |
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11/05/2011 04:50:07 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Beetle:
Originally posted by Neil:
- it is not used in German?
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Correct.
German has three "Umlaut"s (the double dot over a, o and u) plus a weird letter that represents a double s, but no caron. |
As I remember, if you can't create vowels with umlauts over them, you can follow the vowel with an "e" (ae, oe, ue)to achieve the same effect; the umlaut is essentially typographical shorthand. The double-ess character looks a little like a capital Greek Beta, but is also shorthand not necessary unless creating a facsimile of Gothic typography ...
Message edited by author 2011-11-05 16:50:33. |
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11/05/2011 05:38:47 PM · #8 |
| And not even used in Afrikaans, South African dialect of Dutch. We use another form of it ê but not the caron itself. |
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11/05/2011 05:58:43 PM · #9 |
I could be mistaken (it has happened), but I don't recall ever seeing this used in French... we do have a variety of accents, as well as the "Trémat" (Umlaut)and the like, but not a caron.
Ray
Message edited by author 2011-11-05 18:39:56. |
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11/05/2011 06:15:41 PM · #10 |
| caron is used in Czech, Slovenian, Croatian, Romanian, Latvian, Slovakian, And Serbian in latin font version ( Serbian also uses Cyrillic)...other Slavic languages like Russian, Bulgarian , Macedonian etc. that use Cyrillic alphabet use it but its a different font |
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