Re: Weird characters that are hard to pigeonhole. (was: how to tell japanese from chinese)

From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 08:03:10 EDT

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> ...
> Yeah! That's U+204A (TIRONIAN SIGN ET). I thought it was
> modern Irish; is it medieval?
>
> _ Marco
>

It is used both in Medieval and in Modern Irish (in e-mail, we use digit
7 as substitute, as for example, in "beir bua 7 beannacht' as a fairly
typical way to end an e-mail msg).
mg

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