Re: U+25CA LOZENGE - why is it in the "Mac OS Roman" character set (and therefore widespread in current fonts)?

On 13 Aug 2012, at 18:09, Andreas Prilop wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Karl Pentzlin wrote:
>
>> The problem I am confronted with is that this character shares
>> its German name "Raute" with the "#"
>
> I learnt in 7th grade what “Raute” means.
> “#” is not a Raute.
> The center field of “#” is called Raute or Rhombus.

The German WP mentions that in the context of the now discontinued Bildschirmtext, it was called "Raute":
  https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelkreuz_(Satzzeichen)
  https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildschirmtext
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildschirmtext

But otherwise, "Raute" is the same as English "lozenge":
  https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raute_(Symbol)

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Received on Mon Aug 13 2012 - 13:54:50 CDT