At 17:12 +0100 2001-12-02, Kent Karlsson wrote:
>Similarly, COMBINING OVERLINE and COMBINING LOW LINE
>should be used, together with ordinary I, V etc. (when possible)
>to get "lined" roman numerals.
What? Surely this is a font matter, and using combining characters a
hack here. In Quark one might just draw a line and align it with the
font.
> > It is certainly not a glyph variant of an ampersand. An ampersand is
> > a ligature of e and t.
>
>True (both). ("ampersand" is somewhat of a misnomer.)
It derives from "and per se and", apparently.
> > This is certainly an abbreviation of och. That
> > both mean "and" is NOT a reason for unifying different signs.
> >
> > Having said that, it seems to me that U+00B0 would represent Stefan's
> > character easily enough.
>
>No. It's not a degree sign. Nor is 00BA appropriate: the underlined o is
>not superscripted/raised (much, if at all).
Sorry, I did mean U+00BA, and subscription or superscription of the
glyph in that character is a matter of glyph choice.
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