Talk:Tilde

Concise
The names list is far, far too concise. The wave dash looks rather like a tilde. The wavy dash is extended a bit and looks like a W. The wavy line is the vertical form, and looks vaguely like a 3. But apparently, the wave dash is changing to the fullwidth tilde (why don't they just call them equal?). 301C   WAVE DASH @+             * This character as encoded to match JIS C 6226-1978 1-33 "wave dash". Subsequent revisions of the JIS standard and industry practice have settled on JIS 1-33 as being the fullwidth tilde character. x (wavy dash - 3030) x (fullwidth tilde - FF5E) 3030   WAVY DASH x (wavy line - 2307) x (wave dash - 301C) 2307   WAVY LINE x (wavy dash - 3030) Elektron 18:20, 2004 Nov 1 (UTC)

Tilde in Portuguese
The entry claimed that Port. "ão" was pronounced as "ow" in [English] "cow". This is not the case, at least in standard Portuguese (both European and Brazilian). The "ow" in "cow" is more like a Portuguese "au", which it isn't even a nasal diphthong. Even if we disregard nasalization, the vowel in "cow" is an "á", not an "â", as it should be. 16 Nov. 2005.

I've deleted the following: "The diphtongs "ãe", "ão" and "õe" are completely nasal - "ão" is pronounced like the english word "own"." I'm not sure what the phrase 'completely nasal' means, and it seems superfluous, in any case. This article is not about the phonology of Portuguese. It's about the use of a particular diacritic.

The second statement, that '"ão" is pronounced like the english word own', is only (approximately) true if one disregards nasalization, which is the whole point of the tilde in Portuguese, and the fact that there is no n sound at the end of Portuguese ão. It can mislead foreigners learning Portuguese into thinking that 'ão' is pronounced just like 'own', which is not true. 22 Dec. 2005.

Please put G with tilde character URGENTLY in Unicode!
Please put G with tilde character URGENTLY in Unicode! It is of great importance for obvious reasons! --Jaques O. Carvalho &#9756; 13:39, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
 * This is not something that Wikipedia controls. You would have to lobby the Unicode Consortium to get it added as a single precomposed character. But if I were you, I wouldn't bother. Their position is any arbitrary "letter with diacritic" should be constructed using the codepoint for the letter together with the codepoint for the combining diacritic to produce the desired glyph. As the article G with tilde explains. (Nearly the same technique as was done with typewriters!) Yes, they know that it is not fair that European letterforms were given dedicated codepoints but that was back then but it couldn't go on.--𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 14:01, 30 June 2023 (UTC)