Re: Weird characters that are hard to pigeonhole. (was: how to tell japanese from chinese)

From: Wm Seán Glen (rexlibris@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 15:50:49 EDT

I thought the medieval Irish Scribes borrowed it from the Hebrew.
Se¨˘n
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Marco Cimarosti
  To: 'unicode@unicode.org'
  Sent: Friday, 08 June, 2001 10:50
  Subject: RE: Weird characters that are hard to pigeonhole. (was: how to tell japanese from chinese)

  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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