Everyday Diacritics

Coming from The Level 8 Buddhist. This can prove handy:

All extended-ASCII letters in HTML have the format of

&#(number);

So, the trick is just remembering what number you want, and fill in the blanks. Remember that you have to do this for each special letter you want to print. Here’s a helpful chart for some commonly used diacritics and letters for Buddhist terms. Most are for Pali/Sanskrit, but for Japanese, the long vowel sounds are used too (ā, ī, ō, ū):

• á - 225, the a with an acute mark
• é - 233, the e with an acute mark
• ñ - 241, the n with a tilde over it
• ú - 250, the u with an acute mark
• ā - 257, the long “ah” sound
• ī - 299, the long “ee” sound
• ō - 333, the long “oh” sound
• ś - 347 (346 for upper case), the s with an acute mark
• ū - 363, the long “oo” sound
• ḷ - 7735, the nasal “l” sound
• ṃ - 7747, the “ng” sound
• ṅ - 7749, another “ng” sound
• ṇ - 7751, the soft “n” sound
• ḍ - 7693, the nasal “d” sound
• ṣ - 7779 (7778 for upper case), the emphatic “s” sound
• ṭ - 7789, the nasal “t” sound

Try it out on your webpages and see if it works well for you. After a few times, it gets much easier to accurate represent Buddhist terms in English, and you can pass yourself off as a Buddhist scholar or something.

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