circumflex in MW simple-search display

[funderburkjim]

add circumflex in IAST output

Italicizing the 'sanskrit text' when output is IAST -- I was surprised that this is easy to do in simple-search display (#247).

Today I noticed this:

With a-macron, this makes no sense.
However, the real text is:

which uses a circumflex, and indicates that this is a long a, sure, but also this long A is result of a vowel sandhi (mahA + araRya), and this is useful information because it subtly indicates the structure of the compound.

In the digitization, this is <s>ha<srs/>r</s> where the empty tag <srs/> is there precisely to register the circumflex.

In IAST output, this a-circumflex is readily available, and it shouldn't be too hard to adjust the code (in dispitem.php part of simple-search modules) because the user output code (IAST) is available to the program at this point.

For Devanagari, there is no good way to indicate the circumflex in <s>ha<srs/>r</s> . In the 2008 version of the Basic display, we replaced this by an asterisk:

[gasyoun]

For Devanagari, there is no good way to indicate the circumflex in har .

There is. But not in a font (hope I can add it one day). See Hertel's solution: