On 23 May 2012, at 10:00, Szelp, A. Sz. wrote: > ₹: a stemless R crossed (< RA crossed)
This is both Devanagari RA and half a Latin R. > £: a fancy L with a horizontal stroke > ₤: a fancy L with two horizontal strokes > > Quite tellingly in the case of the EURO it is *not* the very geometric > "official" glyph of the Euro that is encoded, it is not even chosen for the > representative glyph. Yes, and discussion is going on with typographers even now to determine how the new charac > So what is the proposed TURKISH LIRA SIGN, if not a "fancy L with two > horizontal strokes"? "Fancy" is meaningless here. The TURKISH LIRA SIGN does not have a curvy S-shaped vertical, but rather a straight vertical like a capital L. It's based not on a script or handwritten L, but on a typographic L with some notions of "anchor" thrown in. It was engineered. It is not the result of a ductus development. Interestingly, in the old metal Caslon fonts, the pound sign was a turned italic capital J. Modern revivals of Caslon keep that £ but revise the J to be more like an I with a descender. I have a Caslon sampler poster framed in my office, and you can see an sample of that old J at http://evertype.com/fonts/rupakara/caslon-pound.jpg Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
