Re: Weird characters that are hard to pigeonhole. (was: how to tell japanese from chinese)

2001-06-08 Thread Curtis Clark
At 09:45 AM 6/8/01, =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJEYkcyRJJCYkaiRlJCYkOBsoQg==?= wrote: >Is there a codepoint for MEDIEVAL AMPERSAND, which looks like modern DIGIT >SEVEN, so much so that in modern books DIGIT SEVEN is used to transcribe it? U+204A TIRONIAN SIGN ET -- Curtis Clark http

Re: Weird characters that are hard to pigeonhole. (was: how to tell japanese from chinese)

2001-06-08 Thread Wm Seán Glen
I thought the medieval Irish Scribes borrowed it from the Hebrew. Se¨¢n - Original Message - From: Marco Cimarosti To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, 08 June, 2001 10:50 Subject: RE: Weird characters that are hard to pigeonhole. (was: how to tell jap

RE: Weird characters that are hard to pigeonhole. (was: how to tell japanese from chinese)

2001-06-08 Thread Marco Cimarosti
¤Æ¤ó¤É¤¦¤ê¤å¤¦¤¸ wrote: > For instance, I wonder about the MEDIEVAL DIGIT FIVE, which you may > have seen, whose glyph resembles DIGIT FOUR's glyph much more than > it does DIGIT FIVE's glyph. How to encode it? I guess Unicode would call this a "glyph variation". However I am curious: can you pro