Re: Obelus and Metobelus characters?

From: Petr Tomasek <tomasek_at_etf.cuni.cz>

> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to find out if there are "somwhere in Unicode" the
> characters used in ancient greek textual criticism, the so-called
> "obelus" and "metobelus signs". See this:
>
> http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek/obl.jpg
>
> I found following signs, none of them seems to be exactly
> what I'm looking for:
>
> U+070B SYRIAC HARKLEAN OBELUS
> U+070C SYRIAC HARKLEAN METOBELUS
>
> The obelus seems like to be the right shape, but it is a RTL
> character. I further found these suggested to have the
> function of obelus, but they have quite different shapes:
>
> U+2020 DAGGER
> U+00F7 DIVISION SIGN
>
> My question is thus: have I missed something?
>
> Thank You!
>
> P.T.
> --
> Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>

U+2E13 - Dotted Obelos and
U+2E14 - Downwards Ancora

-Van Anderson
Received on Fri Aug 12 2011 - 03:13:40 CDT