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Re: CHAT: Odd characters

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 12, 2000, 1:13
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:07:46 +0100 daniel andreasson
<daniel.andreasson@...> writes:
> Steg Belsky wrote: > > Now, off to the unicode lists to search for a symbol > > called SEB!
> In Sweden there is a bank called SEB, short for > Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, but they want their > name to be pronounced /Es e: be:/ and not /sEb/ so > they put silly |'s between the letters like: S|E|B > Of course everyone still says /sEb/. > Unfortunately for you Steg, S|E|B is their logo as well. > No cool sign there for you. ;) > D|A|N|I|E|L
. I got *so* close with Arabic! The emphatic S letter is called _Saad_, with the {Saa} written {S}{alef}. If the letter was called _Saab_ i could have used it as a logograph for my Hebrew initials, Tz?B. Ohwell... -Stephen (Steg) "Eze-guvdhab wa'hrikh-a tze, / "zhoutzii wa'esh," i eze-mwe."