RE: greek character name

From: David J. Perry (hospes@scholarsfonts.net)
Date: Sat Jul 02 2005 - 06:15:46 CDT

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Possibly a capital Stigma (U+03DA), formed with a lunate sigma shape and
a Tau? Stigma was originally a cursive form of digamma, used as a
numeral, and later confused with a sigma/tau ligature. There is a
considerable amount of confusion out there regarding this character.

David

> What's the Unicode name of the attached Greek character (taken from
> the TeX cbgreek fonts)? Is it a glyph variant?
>
>
> Werner
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