RE: Weird characters that are hard to pigeonhole. (was: how to te ll japanese from chinese)

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てんどうりゅうじ wrote:
> For instance, I wonder about the MEDIEVAL DIGIT FIVE, which you may
> have seen, whose glyph resembles DIGIT FOUR's glyph much more than
> it does DIGIT FIVE's glyph. How to encode it?

I guess Unicode would call this a "glyph variation". However I am curious:
can you produce a picture or ASCII/JIS art of it?

> Is there a codepoint for MEDIEVAL AMPERSAND, which looks like modern
> DIGIT SEVEN, so much so that in modern books DIGIT SEVEN is used to
> transcribe it?

Yeah! That's U+204A (TIRONIAN SIGN ET). I thought it was modern Irish; is it
medieval?

_ Marco

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