From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sun Apr 02 2006 - 10:40:23 CST
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin <antonio at tuvalkin dot web dot pt> wrote:
> We have already noted in this list that, due to keyboard availability,
> in France U+00B0 is often used where U+00BA is intended; in Portugal,
> for identical reasons, the opposite occurs.
Years ago I was informed by our French subsidiary at work that we MUST
use U+004E U+00B0 to spell the abbreviation for "numéro," even after I
pointed out that we had access to U+00BA (and thousands of other
characters). That annoyed me no end, morally and typographically, but I
was in no position to claim to know French usage better than they did.
-- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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