Re: Character list for European and Canadian use in the revised keyboard standard ISO/IEC 9995-3, supplementing MES-1

From: Leo Broukhis (leob@mailcom.com)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2008 - 11:50:54 CDT

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    On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
    > On 9/17/2008 5:55 PM, Leo Broukhis wrote:
    >>
    >> 2008/9/17 Karl Pentzlin <karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de>:
    >>
    >>>
    >>> Elementary mathematical symbols:
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >>>
    >>> U+2264 LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO - no own key needed, enter as:
    >>> diacritical mark "combining macron below" + "less-than sign"
    >>> U+2265 GREATER-THAN OR EQUAL TO - no own key needed, enter as:
    >>> diacritical mark "combining macron below" + "greater-than sign"
    >>>
    >>
    >> In some countries,
    >> U+2A7D LESS-THAN OR SLANTED EQUAL TO and
    >> U+2A7E GREATER-THAN OR SLANTED EQUAL TO are used instead.
    >> If nothing else, using "combining macron below" for both is
    >> counterintuitive.
    >>
    >
    > (I tend to doubt that the difference between slanted and non-slanted use in
    > the example here is a true "local convention" - at least I've not seen hard
    > evidence to that effect, would be interesting to get some, if it existed).

    I've never seen a non-slanted variant in a Russian book. The line
    printers with the GOST 10859 character set also had the slanted
    variants.

    Leo

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