Re: Scripts

On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 11:35, Tim May wrote:
> Tristan McLeay writes:
>  > On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 06:07, Ray Brown wrote:
>  > > On Friday, July 5, 2002, at 09:49 , Nik Taylor wrote:
>
>  > > And þ survived in English right up till the advent of printing.  Abrigon
>
>  > hand-written texts with very y-looking Þ's. Generally with an extension
>
>
> Now this is interesting.  Why are there two different thorns here?  Is
> Tristan's even a thorn at all?  And how do these show up on Macs?
>
> þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ þ Þ
Simple: capital and lowercase. 'Þæt' is how you say the ancestor to
'that' at the start of a sentence; elsewhere you would write 'þæt'. I'm
assuming it'll show up properly on a Mac assuming it can deal with the
character sets nicely.

Tristan.

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