Eng (was: Name mangling)
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 10, 2005, 6:52 |
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On Wednesday, March 9, 2005, at 07:07 , Andreas Johansson wrote:
[snip]
> Joe suggested eng, but, AFAIK, it doesn't have an uppercase form, and it'
> s
> riskier in electronic form than is ñ.
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 :)
Personally, I find this state of affairs both frustrating and inexcusable.
Ray
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