[developers] Special characters in orthographic subrules

[David Inman]

It works for all, including the period. I don't know why I didn't try the
obvious escape character first. Thanks.

David Inman
PhD Candidate
University of Washington Linguistics


On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:12 PM Stephan Oepen <oe at ifi.uio.no> wrote:

> hi david,
>
> i would expect that a single backslash should work to escape characters
> that are part of the %suffix() special syntax, which i believe is true of
> the first three on your list but not the period.
>
> best, oe
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:36 PM David Inman <davinman at uw.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I would like to use a few special characters in my irules definition for
>> Nuuchahnulth. These special characters are:
>>
>> (
>> )
>> !
>> . (period)
>>
>> These are historically used to donate certain types of phonemes in the
>> language family. Is there a way to escape these characters in my irules
>> file?
>>
>> David Inman
>> PhD Candidate
>> University of Washington Linguistics
>>
>
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