> 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).
>