On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 01:44:25PM +0000, Michael Everson via Unicode wrote: > I write my 7’s and Z’s with a horizontal line through them. Ƶ is encoded > not for this purpose, but because Z and Ƶ are distinct in orthographies > for varieties of Tatar, Chechen, Karelian, and Mongolian. This is a > contemporary writing convention but it does not argue for a new SEVEN WITH > STROKE character or that I should use Ƶ rather than Z when I write > *Ƶanƶibar.
And that use conflicts with Ƶ ƶ being an allograph of Polish Ż ż, used especially when marks above cap height are unwanted or when readability is important (Żż is too similar to Źź). It also happened to be nicely renderable with Z^H- z^H- vs Z^H' z^H' on printers which had backspace. I unsuccessfully argued for such a variant on a "historical terminals" font: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font/issues/19 But in either case the difference is purely visual rather than semantic. The latter still applies to _some_ uses of superscript, but not to the mgr. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Have you heard of the Amber Road? For thousands of years, the ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ Romans and co valued amber, hauled through the Europe over the ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ mountains and along the Vistula, from Gdańsk. To where it came ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ together with silk (judging by today's amber stalls).