Diacritics
 

When converting PDF files to epub, I run across a lot of diacritics.

One I can't find is "A" and "a" with a "^" above. I call it "A hat."

Would someone please post this diacritic here or point me to a place where it can be found and add it to my diacritics list.

Thanks,
Charlie

The Calibre editor shows those (A,a w/circumflex) as U+00C2 and U+00E2

Many thanks!!!

There is a chart for special glyphs and symbols I use a lot at
https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref

A very comprehensive list for just about all characters, special and normal at
http://www.freeformatter.com/html-entities.html

(I saved copies of the web pages to my drive so I can refer to them even off-line)

gG

From HTML, XHTML, & CSS by Elizabeth Castro:

 for upper case A, â for lower case a. And so on for the other letters of the alphabet.

There 10 pages in the book showing all the other diacritics.

I really need to study up on my ePub3-isms...but IIRC, I think ePub3 does not support the named unicodes - only the numbered ones.

You are correct. I fortunately have it easier there. I can just type a ^ and then an a and presto: â. Works the same for most Western European diacritics. No need for remembering the numbered codes.

Is that a keyboard/language thing, or do you have a program running to do those conversions?

You can do it by default on some keyboards (at least french keyboards).
Same thing for ë / Ä / Ü, etc.

(For special cases, I use PhraseExpress, where I store a whole bunch of foreign characters, and I access the list just by typing a letter.)

IMHO, the easiest solution is the Insert Special Character window in Sigil. It covers, among other things, the most frequently used characters with diacritics in Romance languages.

That's called "dead key": you press the key, nothing happens, you press another key and the second letter appears modified by the first key. To get a bare ^ or ` or ~ you press the dead key and then the space. In mechanical typewriters the "dead key" printed the accent, but didn't advance the carriage, so you could immediately press the letter and it would be printed below the accent.

You may be able to select some kind of "English + dead keys" keyboard layout in your OS.

And there's probably some kind of "character map" utility in your OS to select all kind of characters, including astrological symbols, chinese ideograms, etc.

It is a keyboard/language thing. Since my language is set to Dutch with a US keyboard, this is default. Very useful in my case.

I just copy/paste from the Windows "Character Map" accessory. (Windows Key + R, type "charmap").

similar, babelchar (charmap alternative) in my Start/Handy Utilities group.

BR

The Calibre editor has a Character tool for those who do not like Sigil's flattening. You can run the editor form the commandline without importing the book
Choices, you have TONS of them :thumbsup: