blog! “Accents and eBooks”
By and large, the English language doesn't use diacritical marks. Even our loanwords are stripped of them; we drink in a cafe rather than the more pretentious café. This has a consequence for HTML and, by extension, eBooks. As a quick primer, modern computing gives us two main ways of displaying a letter with an […]
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@Edent I read a fair amount of stuff with Vietnamese characters in — in particular character names in @aliettedb’s work. It blows my mind how often people don't account for Viet-only Latin-script characters.
This (https://dataare.cool/@owenblacker/112247743990634454) is a recent example, where the Viet-only characters i-tilde, a-dot-below and y-dot-below were in roman-type because they didn't load Bookerly Italic for Latin Extended Additional. In a book that only uses 2 fonts and makes copious use of Vietnamese names.