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Michael J. Eager <eager@ringworld.Eng.Sun.COM> writes:
> Doesn't it sort of muddy the waters to mix phonemes into a discussion
> of fonts and orthography?  

Certainly does!

> English may have fourteen vowel sounds [...]
> Orthography does not match phonetics in any language I am aware of.  That
> is why there is an International Phonetic Alphabet.  

Try Finnish!  The finnish vowels are:
	a  e  i  o  u  y  \"a  \"o
These vowels can also be used to describe all 14 English vowel sounds.  For
example:
     English	Finnish
	hut	a
	met	e
	sit	i
	or	o
	put	u
	hat	\"a
	take	e+i
	out	a+u
	told	o+u
Each vowel is pronounced the same regardless of what vowels are surrounding
it.  So, if you have the word "auto" (hey, so it's international!) you would
pronnounce the "a" vowel, the "u" vowel, "t" and the "o" vowel.  And that's
the way it always works, with no exceptions!  Of course, this has very little
to do with fonts...

ObFont: Would anyone with a PostScript font editor be willing to add umlaut
characters to a few ATM fonts (for reasonable compensation)?  I don't really
want to fork out $300 or whatever just to add the umlauts to a few characters.

[ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ]
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