Re: A character joke

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Nov 12 2005 - 12:28:14 CST

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Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote:

> Tech support: How may I help you?
>
> Customer: I'm writing my first e-mail.
>
> Tech support: OK, and what seems to be the problem?
>
> Customer: Well, I have the letter 'a' in the address, but how do
> I get the circle around it?

In fact, I did suggest using the CJK-compatibility characters U+24B6
(circled A, Ⓐ) and U+24D0 (circled a, ⓐ) as an alternative to last
year's proposal to create a "spoof buddy" clone of the @ symbol for
Koalib orthographic use.

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Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California, USA
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

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