I transcribe a lot of 19th centruy documentation and come across this letter quite a lot
Is there anything in the ACSII character list which I have missed which will enable a more realistic transcription on a web page.
At present I am using ƒs (#4202 ) :which is a hooked f followed by s
Any thoughts ?
Thanks
Antony
I think I found what you are looking for here…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
& #383 ; (remove the space between & and #) will get you ſ
Hope this helps…
Perfect !
I couldn’t spot that one anywhere by googling
Where did you find it ?
ralphm
November 24, 2013, 12:13pm
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Basically every known character is available in Unicode, so if you ever need the code for such a character, add “unicode” to your Google search. E.g. “unicode long s”.
Off Topic:
19th centruy documentation and come across this letter quite a lot
Surprised you find it in 19th C literature … unless this literature is referencing older texts.
Thanks.
It’s handwriting in census returns which I transcribe,
Lots of double s in place and surnames
Thanks
ralphm
November 24, 2013, 10:15pm
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I’m quite amazed to hear people were still using it in handwriting at that stage.
felgall
November 25, 2013, 1:23am
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The wiki article scout1idf referred to states that it was still used in handwriting until approximately 1860.
Francky
November 25, 2013, 4:14am
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@certificates #3:
This seems a rather complete list of all characters (1-100000): [U]brucejohnson.ca/SpecialCharacters.html[/U]
I use Wikipedia for about everything. I figured they would have something on the subject…
If you know the full English name of the character, you can always get all the codes in DuckDuckGo in the zero-click info box.
The problem is knowing the full English name