Talk:Náströnd
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What is the difference between Helgard and Niflheim. I know that Helgard means "home of Hel" and Helheim (also referred to in these articles) is "Hel-home" but what of Niflheim? Am I researching it wrong?
- Our current articles on this are confusing and wrong. I'm working on providing accurate information. The first order of business is to get rid of names like "Helgard(h)" which don't occur in the original sources. - Haukur 17:14, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Haukur, I very much agree with your revision of my revision of 15 January 2006 , i.e.;
"(It's actually o-ogonek :) and since it's a direct quote it seems dubious to replace it with 'ö'. Try if you see it now, I've inserted a Unicode template.) "
Since it is a direct quote, I should have paid more attention before blythely substituting a "ö" for the blank characters. However, the Unicode template you inserted didn't seem to fix the problem when I view the text. I suspect many others have this problem as well, as o-ogonek does not seem to be supported in many fonts.
I think the whole point of writing is to convey a meaning by duplicating spoken sounds. The character "ö", or even "o" conveys more meaning to me than a blank space or a little rectangle and at least approximates the proper sound.
I don't want to make a mountain out of a mole-hill, or make more work for you, but is there anything else we can do about this?
Kærir þakkir,
Kristoffur
- Hmm... I think that this should show up on most modern computer systems. You can download some Unicode fonts if you'd like :)
- Those in the Unicode template are: TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Code2000, Doulos SIL, Chrysanthi Unicode, Bitstream Cyberbit, Bitstream CyberBase, DejaVu Sans, Bitstream Vera, Thryomanes, Gentium, GentiumAlt, Visual Geez Unicode, Lucida Grande, Arial Unicode MS, Microsoft Sans Serif, Lucida Sans Unicode in that order. Some of those are freely available, though I'm not an expert on this. - Haukur 21:03, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
