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

[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 japanese from chinese) 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? Yeah! That's U+204A (TIRONIAN SIGN ET). I thought it was modern Irish; is it medieval? _ Marco