Re: U+0023

From: John Wilcock (john@tradoc.fr)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 05:53:17 CST

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Johannes Bergerhausen wrote:
> the official french rules are
> coming more from typewriter than
> from typography. This time, the french rule is »n'importe-quoi« (makes
> no sense).

Even today the degree sign is on French PC keyboards, the masculine
ordinal is not. I see N° quite literally every day in documents we
receive for translation, never Nº or №.

John.

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