<div dir="ltr">It works for all, including the period. I don't know why I didn't try the obvious escape character first. Thanks.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">David Inman</div><div style="font-size:small">PhD Candidate</div><div style="font-size:small">University of Washington Linguistics</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:12 PM Stephan Oepen <<a href="mailto:oe@ifi.uio.no">oe@ifi.uio.no</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>hi david,</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>best, oe</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:36 PM David Inman <<a href="mailto:davinman@uw.edu" target="_blank">davinman@uw.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>I would like to use a few special characters in my irules definition for Nuuchahnulth. These special characters are:</div><div><br></div><div>(</div><div>)</div><div>!</div><div>. (period)</div><div><br></div><div>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?<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-6945859808279163921gmail-m_-5788220316446702022gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">David Inman</div><div style="font-size:small">PhD Candidate</div><div style="font-size:small">University of Washington Linguistics</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </blockquote></div> </blockquote></div>