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Wednesday, 21 January 2004

Nuclear

How do you pronounce that?

Thanks to hildjj, the only word I've picked up from the State of the Union so far, is the word nuclear. Apparently a hard to pronounce word, but it also proves difficult to display the pronounciation in my browser.

no͞o'kl-ər

If you have recent Unicode fonts installed, you should be able to see the above. It didn't render correctly for me, and after a bit of searching, I found the Junicode font set which contains the right glyphs for the combining diacritical marks such as the COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON, also known as U+035E.

Placing the fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/junicode, running fc-cache and restarting my browser worked nicely for me.

Now if only a certain president would read this...