----- Original Message ----- From: "Asmus Freytag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Can anyone shed further light on this character? I assume this is a lower > case form, does anyone care to confirm that?
Isn't your "per" symbol it similar to the form variant of the lowercase p used for the Weierstass elliptic function, at U+2118, znd uses the same style ?
no it's definitely different.
For me it's looks similar too with some handwriten lowercase Thorn, however it may also be a ligature, or the second loop may be a form of overriding stroke (in that case it would be in the same family as accounting symbols like percent, arrobace, currency sign, so it is expected to have origins in merchant accounting notations and the ligature would in fact read as "units per" or "u.p." or "u/p", and the "per" name you found may be misguiding for its origin).
it's not uncommon for the first stroke of the p to be traced in 'outline' so to speak. You can find such things in many font styles.
I was hoping to find someone who had additional evidence for this character.
A./
