Mr Whistler parried:
>Mr. Everson said:
>
>> Actually, in my Gaelic fonts on the Mac OS I substituted the shamrock
> > for that position. At some stage I will be requesting a shamrock....
>
>And will ye be askin' for the top to be green, and the bottom to be
>orange, now?
>
>http://www.gardencentre.ie/shamrock.htm
Well, no. The colours should go from left to right. :-)
>P.S. perhaps a glyph variant of LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O, as in:
>
>*Oh* the Shamrock,
>The green, immortal Shamrock!
>Chosen leaf
>Of Bard and Chief,
>Old Erin's native Shamrock!
May the gods forgive you.
No, Ken, I would encode the symbol which on xix of Íslensk ordabók
1992 means "grasafrĉdi" 'botany'.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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