Sanskrit to English

[Rory Fonseca]

How does one place a dot (.) OVER a lower case letter "n" for transliterating
Sanskrit words into English? I am using Windows XP, Word 2003, Arial font.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Since you're using Arial anyway, install Arial Unicode MS (if not already
installed) and find "Latin small letter n with dot above" at 1E45 in the
Latin Extended Additional character subset.

Alternatively, if you have to create a document that will be sent to users
who may not have that font installed, you can use an EQ \o field to combine
02D9 ("Dot above") with n. See the appropriate section of
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm for instructions.

 

[Rory Fonseca]

Hello Suzanne:
Many thanks.
--
Rory Fonseca

Since you're using Arial anyway, install Arial Unicode MS (if not already
installed) and find "Latin small letter n with dot above" at 1E45 in the
Latin Extended Additional character subset.

Alternatively, if you have to create a document that will be sent to users
who may not have that font installed, you can use an EQ \o field to combine
02D9 ("Dot above") with n. See the appropriate section of
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm for instructions.

 

[Opinicus]

Since you're using Arial anyway, install Arial Unicode MS (if not already
installed) and find "Latin small letter n with dot above" at 1E45 in the
Latin Extended Additional character subset.

Out of curiosity I typed 1E45 then Alt-X and I got that character (small n
with a dot above) but the font was Tahoma and no matter what I do, I can't
change the font to anything else. Why should that be, I wonder?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I get Arial Unicode MS (after a short delay). The Tahoma font does not
contain this character at all (at least the version I have installed
doesn't), so I'm guessing that it's being inserted (as Word sometimes does)
in the midst of otherwise Tahoma text as a covert Symbol field that displays
the "(normal text)" font name. But I can't reproduce this: even if I insert
1E45 in the middle of some Tahoma text and convert it, it still shows Arial
Unicode MS.