----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hudson" <tiro@tiro.com>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: den 1 december 2001 21:01
Subject: Re: Are these characters encoded?
> >1.) Swedish ampersand (see "&.bmp"). It's an "o" (for "och", i.e. "and")
> >with a line below. In handwritten text it is almost always used instead
of
> >&, in machine-written text I don't think I've ever seen it.
>
> This is, as your analysis suggests, a glyph variant, not a distinct
> character.
Well, this character is *only* used in Swedish, while & is used in most
(all?) languages using Roman letters, so it has a partially different usage!
Using this character in, for example, an English text would be *wrong*! Or
is "α" a glyph variant of "a" and "あ?"
Stefan
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