----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: den 1 december 2001 21:01 Subject: Re: Are these characters encoded?
> >1.) Swedish ampersand (see "&.bmp"). It's an "o" (for "och", i.e. "and") > >with a line below. In handwritten text it is almost always used instead of > >&, in machine-written text I don't think I've ever seen it. > > This is, as your analysis suggests, a glyph variant, not a distinct > character. Well, this character is *only* used in Swedish, while & is used in most (all?) languages using Roman letters, so it has a partially different usage! Using this character in, for example, an English text would be *wrong*! Or is "α" a glyph variant of "a" and "あ?" Or even better, what about "A" and "Α?" Stefan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
