Re: U+006E U+0308 spotted in the wild

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On 2003.05.05, 11:35, Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it> wrote:

> My guess is that some misinformed designer of TV titling devices for
> the Portuguese marked assumed that <¨> was a valid glyph variant for
> <~>, being used to old DOS software, and drawn all tildes in the
> device's font as <¨>, including the one on <ñ>.

Marco, that's worthy of a Sherlock -- you beat the case without ever
leaving your armchair! :-)

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