Re: Omega + upsilon ligature?

From: Otto Stolz (Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 14:21:59 EDT

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    Marco Cimarosti wrote:

    > The sign was in a word looking like "ȣρων" [...] If I understand correctly,

    > the text also says that this sign is a diphthong which in Doric was sub-

    > stituted by a plain "ω" [...]
    >
    > Therefore, I tentatively identified the word as "ωυρων", and the
    > unknown glyph ligature as an "ωυ" ligature.
    >
    > Does anyone know whether such a ligature actually existed in old typography?
    > And was it anything like an open "8"?

    We have discussed this, back in February in <unicode@unicode.org> -- though,
    IIRC, for some Canadian aborigines language, written, in Latin script, by
    French missionaries. It turned out to be
       U+0222 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OU
       U+0223 LATIN SMALL LETTER OU

    Best wishes,
       Otto Stolz



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