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Re: Eng (was: Name mangling)

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Thursday, March 10, 2005, 8:35
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:52:52 +0000, Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> Eng certainly has an upper case form. It's like the ordinary upper case N > with the 'eng tail'. Eng is actually used in some natlang orthographies. > > But you're sure right that it's riskier in electronic form than Ñ and ñ. > Upper case eng is supposed to be Unicode Hex U+014A, namely Ŋ > > But my mailer displays it as a sort of lower case _h_, which is quite > wrong, and so do most of the many, many fonts on my machine; only Cardo > and Zapfino display it correctly. > > So if you want to see what the symbol really looks like, read my mail in > Cardo or Zapfino :)
I saw it like this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/pne/uppercase-eng.png . I don't know which font my mailer chose; the body of the mail was Arial, however. It doesn't look like the Unicode reference glyph (capital N with eng tail), but not like a lower-case h, either -- more like an incomplete capital D or, well, a capital version of lower-case eng (but with no descender). Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> Watch the Reply-To!

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