I wonder if anyone can help me track down two punctuation symbols in Unicode? - I've been through the charts and, try as I might, I can't seem to locate them....
They are used in the transliteration of cuneiform for partially preserved signs and look like the very top portions, respectively, of the parentheses marks : [ and ]
I'm hoping that they are supported in Unicode, as they are used frequently in Assyriological literature.
These half brackets are not yet encoded. The CEILING characters could be used by some (and are recommended by some for this purpose) but in my experience neither cuneiformists nor medievalists have accepted the CEILING characters. A proposal for medieval Nordic characters will contain these.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
