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Re: Latin mxedruli, or do we really need capital and small letters?

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Friday, May 28, 2004, 5:32
Ray Brown scripsit:

> >>On the other hand, I have seen Greek texts printed with just a single > >>form > > I meant to finish the sentence thus: "...which is similar to our > lower-case c."
That's the lunate sigma. It was commonly used in Byzantine days, and is still used when transcribing Byzantine manuscripts. Nick Nicholas's paper on Greek and Unicode is very interesting to anyone concerned with the ins and outs of the Greek script: http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/unicode.html . -- What asininity could I have uttered John Cowan <jcowan@...> that they applaud me thus? http://www.reutershealth.com --Phocion, Greek orator http://www.ccil.org/~cowan