Eng again (was: Name mangling)
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 10, 2005, 19:29 |
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On Thursday, March 10, 2005, at 05:40 , Muke Tever wrote:
> Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
>> On Mar 9, 2005, at 9:07 PM, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>>> Joe suggested eng, but, AFAIK, it doesn't have an uppercase form, and
>>> it's riskier in electronic form than is ñ.
>>>
>> It is riskier, but it also has an uppercase form!
>
> It actually has _two_ uppercase forms: one that looks like a large
> lowercase
> eng, and one that looks like a capital N with the same hook as eng.
Yes, you're right! - I was mistaken in saying that the latter was _the_
uppercase eng. I discover that in fact in the 'African Alphabet' by the
International Institute of Languages & cultures in London in 1930, the
former version of the uppercase eng was used.
On Wednesday, March 9, 2005, at 08:03 , Steg Belsky wrote:
[snip]
I have seen - both uppercase forms appear on that page. But neither of
them look like the weird h-like symbol most of the fonts on my Mac produce!
It strikes me that it would have been better if unicode had codes
separately for the two different versions. but i still do not see why most
fonts cannot be designed to produce either one or the other shape properly.
Ray
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