Diacritics - Should I be able to see them?

Sorry to be so stupid, but should I be able to see diacritics on the postings on this site? Currently sanskrit appears as (for example) ...

premodbhAvita-harSerSyod-
vega-dainyArti-mizritam

...which to me has no diacritics but a few capital letters within the words. Is that what everyone sees? I've looked at the Tech pages, BB Code 'help', and played around with the diacritics converter in "posting" mode, but don't really understand what to do in "viewing" mode in order to see diacritics.

I've been using a Mac for a long time, but am now on a PC and am struggling a bit!

Kamala

Look at this thread and see if it helps you out.

It's not diacritics, it's Harvard-Kyoto Convention encoding especially fo Internet. See, for example, here: http://www.gaudiyadiscussions.com/index.ph...opic=1216&st=30

ॐ शांतिः शांतिः शांतिः

Thanks, as Madhavaji put it in the post that you cited above "Diacritic characters don't work well on the internet, mainly because of various font encoding related problems"... and I thought it was just me and my PC newbie trauma!

I'll try to learn to live with the Harvard-Kyoto Convention style!

Some feel it is easier to just write "diacritics without diacritics", Krishna becomes Krsna and so forth. And that may work for people who just don't care for Sanskrit. Most of us here have settled for a mixture of phonetic spelling and Harvard-Kyoto, common words such as kRSNa and vRndAvana become Krishna and Vrindavan, while quoted Sanskrit text is invariably, and specialiced terminology to an extent, written in Harvard-Kyoto.

special "iced" terminology

Yearning for Finland already?

I don't need to go to Finland for that, I just need to wait three more weeks here... Or just take a bath without warming up the water.

We got some special-iced AquaFine yesterday, the bottle was frozen through and through. These guys really mean cold when they sell their bottled water cold.

Of course, maybe I read it wrong and you are scratching your head over that speci-a-liced terminology.

I had guessed that it was a convention created for the internet but it's driving me kind of crazy. My early internet bbs experience was pre-formatting, unix-only, and of course caps meant the equivalent of a raised voice. So when I try to parse this method of representing Sanskrit it feels like a raised voice, off and on, throughout the word or quote. I guess I'll get used to it after awhile.

I am like as not going to use Krsna because it's been a habit for years to type it that way and I see the diacritics in my mind's eye. It isn't an indicator of how much I like Sanskrit.

I spell it out for an uninformed audience.

Thanks for the links!