Re: Eng (was: Name mangling)

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@...>
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