Re: Scripts

Tristan McLeay writes:
 > 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.

D'oh.  Obvious when you think about it, but I'd never considered what
the diference between an upper and lower case thorn was.  Does eth
look different too?

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