Which calls to mind a very useful freeware utility if you're on a mac:
UnicodeChecker. ( http://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/index.html )


On April 9, at 1:17 PM, Nathan Tallman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> You should be able to use the UTF-8 entity reference. For the t with a dot,
> you would use "&#7789;" in your XML. You can look up entity references on
> sites like this <http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e6d/index.htm
>> .
> 
> Nathan
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Tamara Gaydos <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> One of my collections has a 700 in the MARC record that includes some
>> diacritics (Saʻīd bin Sulṭān). My EAD encoder been searching through the
>> “Insert from Character Map” in Oxygen and hasn’t been able to find the ayn
>> from Saʻid or the dot below the t in Sulṭān. Does anyone know if those
>> characters exist in the Character map? In general how do you handle subject
>> headings with diacritics in them? Do you "Romanize" them?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Tamara Gaydos, CA
>> Manuscripts Processor
>> Phillips Library | Peabody Essex Museum
>> East India Square | Salem, MA 01970
>> 978-542-1510 [log in to unmask]
>> 

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