At 21:33 12/1/2001, Asmus Freytag wrote:
>If the character can be shown to have as much justification for existence
>as coded character as similar characters in the standard, i.e. if it's
>ever used in printed handwriting, etc., etc., than we will have a tough
>time coming up with a unification that's not (far) worse than just adding
>it by itself.
Indeed. If it is not suitable to treat the och sign as a variant form of
the ampersand, it would be better to give it its own codepoint rather than
try to unify it with some other character(s) that would require more
convoluted rendering.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
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