Asmus Freytag wrote:
> Overloading the existing 00BA º is tempting, but would likely
> result in
> incorrect output unless special purpose (read private use)
> fonts are used,
> or unless it became common to have a Swedish glyph overrides
> in fonts and
> rendering engines that applied them. Since the usage and typographic
> convention for 'och' and the raised o for numbering are not
> related, this
> unification smells more of shoehorning than encoding.
Perhaps there is also a "logical" difference.
The Swedish "o" represents the *first* letter of a word (och), and can thus
be interpreted as <o.> (o *followed* by a dot); 00BA represents the *last*
letter of a word (it abbreviates ordinal adjectives like primero, segundo,
tercero... primo, secondo, terzo...), so it may logically be interpreted as
<.o> (o *preceded* by a dot).
_ Marco
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