Re: German penny symbol

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Jul 22 1999 - 20:36:50 EDT


At 03:32 PM 7/22/99 -0700, Markus Kuhn wrote:
>John Cowan wrote on 1999-07-22 19:05 UTC:
>> What happened to U+20B0 GERMAN PENNY SYMBOL
>
>Where does this symbol come from and what does it look like?
>Is the proposal and rationale for including it somewhere online?
>
>Markus
>(a poor German who has neither ever seen a German penny symbol anywhere,

You certainly seem to have avoided exposure to all but 100% modern writing.

>nor is aware of any currency unit "penny" ever used anywhere in the land
>of Schiller, Goethe, and Walkes.)

Penny is a legitimate translation for Pfennig - don't tell me that you
don't know that.

A./



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jul 10 2001 - 17:20:48 EDT