Re: Syllable structure - HELP!!!

From: "Almaran Dungeonmaster" <dungeonmaster@...>

> Roger Mills wrote:
>
> > Alas, 0154 and its cap 0138 is one of several that doesn't always
> > survive in email.
> > Similarly the "italic f" thing, which I believe is actually the symbol
for
> > Dutch florin??
>
> Dutch guilder sign is ALT+0131... or:
> f
> if you can read it. Although the "f" comes from the old word for florin,
or
> "florijn" in Dutch, our current coin is called "gulden" .... eh, I mean
> "euro" off course ;-)
The Netherlands went to the Euro on New Year's right?  I know the UK and a
couple other EU members didn't.  (Note for the confused: The Euro sign can
be typed by Alt+0128 -- or Right-Alt-5 on the US-International keyboard --
if you have Windows 98 or later, or Windows 95 or NT 4.0 with an appropriate
update, and you need fonts that have the glyph.  This is what it looks like:
    ?
That is, if your e-mail program can handle that wild frontier in the
character set between 80 and 9F. ;)

Now Unicode describes the florin character (f) as "small letter f with
hook".  It lists its uses as "florin currency symbol (Netherlands)",
"function symbol", and "abbreviation convention for folder".  I wasn't aware
of the last one....

~DaW~


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