Re: Ie abbreviation character

From: Lars Marius Garshol (larsga@garshol.priv.no)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 05:04:48 EDT


* Lars Marius Garshol
|
| I've been looking for the the character used in Norwegian (and
| possibly elsewhere) as an abbreviation for "that is to say", "in other
| words", "i.e.". It looks like a reversed lower-case "c" followed by a
| colon.

* Otto Stolz
|
| You mean “ɔ:”?

That is: U+0254 U+003A. (Open o, or turned c, followed by colon.)

Kind of, but it's a single character. I take it this means that it's
not encoded in Unicode?

Does anyone know of an international name for this character, or any
use of it outside Norway?

-- 
Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian         <URL: http://www.ontopia.net >
ISO SC34/WG3, OASIS GeoLang TC        <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >



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