On Sun, Dec 02 2018 at 10:33 +0100, Hans Åberg via Unicode wrote: >> On 30 Oct 2018, at 22:50, Ken Whistler via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> >> wrote: >> >> On 10/30/2018 2:32 PM, James Kass via Unicode wrote: >>> but we can't seem to agree on how to encode its abbreviation. >> >> For what it's worth, "mgr" seems to be the usual abbreviation in Polish for >> it. > > It was common in the 1800s to singly and doubly underline superscript > abbreviations in handwriting according to [1-2], and [2] also mentions > the abbreviation discussed in this thread.
Thank you very much for this reference to the very abbreviation! I looked up Wikipedia but I haven't read it carefully enough :-( > > 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator > 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator#cite_note-1 Best regards Janusz -- , Janusz S. Bien emeryt (emeritus) https://sites.google.com/view/jsbien