RE: help needed with adding new character

From: Mike Ayers (mike.ayers@tumbleweed.com)
Date: Fri Mar 19 2004 - 12:48:56 EST

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> From: Asmus Freytag [mailto:asmusf@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:44 PM

> In less than half an hour of looking at printed samples, I've
> been able to
> locate two instances of the symbol replacing the letter A in
> a word. If
> that's not use in text, I don't know what is.

That is use in text as a glyph variant, which is, by my unofficial
count, the most frequently cited reason not to encode.

/|/|ike

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