How I get my diacriticals

Some folk may find this interesting. HTML codes - Table of ascii characters and symbols

I use html codes to get my diacriticals and such in LJ posts, rather than writing in a word processor or using the character map (in Windows 95 and later, found in the accessories/system tools menu--a handy thing to know if you're writing on someone else's computer rather than your own with a modified keyboard layout).

ataniell93, IIRC you said you weren't able to get the right characters for some of the names in the Ataniell Cycle to display on LJ? I don't know which those would be, but they could be in this list. It's got the codes for æ "aesc" and ð "eth" and þ "thorn," which I didn't know, and am happy to have, even if I feel faintly stupid now for not having guessed them :-)

Lynn Cheney's Sisters

A piece in the New York Times today gave a link to excerpts from Lynne Cheney's Sisters. For those who don't remember, this is the novel Mrs. Cheney published in 1981, a western potboiler replete with conservative family values, such as "a kind of guerrilla warfare in which women were forced to band together for the strength they needed and at times the love they wanted." (a quote from the back cover blurb.) Yes, we're talking frontier lesbianism here.

This is the same novel which had been out of print for twenty years, until New American Library (owner of the rights) announced plans for a reprint, to be released 6 April, 2004. The which did not happen, after a call from Mrs. Cheney's lawyer, Robert Barnett.

According to rumour, Republicans are buying up copies in an effort to protect Mrs. Cheney.

Judging by the excerpts given, the only really offensive aspect of the novel is Mrs. Cheney's purple prose. But as the work of a woman who recently threw a fit over her openly lesbian daughter being "outed," this is quite ironic. Perhaps that's why Mrs. Cheney claimed to have forgotten the plot of her own book.