On 3/31/06, Foster Brereton <fosterb.boost@gmail.com> wrote:
I agree that mangling the proper spelling of an individual's name is inappropriate, and that a proper solution to this issue would circumvent that option.
it gets mangled anyway (what you see is code-page dependent, in my case a greek sum instead of the a: in ja:rvi's name, much worse than seeing "jarvi") Thoughts? Alternatives?
not sure about the correct term, it's called something like "flying accents", so that e.g. an A with an accent is written as A' it's pretty straightforward, supported by many tools (like TeX or vim), and resembles Unicode's way (Unicode U+00C1 written as Unicode U+0041 + U+0301) unfortunately i don't know about any standards (or even official documents) br, andras