On 6/22/2010 6:52 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:46:27 am Terry Reedy wrote:
3. Unicode disclaims direct representation of glyphic variants
(though again, exceptions were made for asian acceptance). For
example, in English, mechanically printed 'a' and 'g' are different
from manually printed 'a' and 'g'. Representing both by the same
codepoint, in itself, loses information. One who wishes to preserve
the distinction must instead use a font tag or perhaps a
<handprinted> tag. Similarly, older English had a significantly
different glyph for 's', which looks more like a modern 'f'.
An unfortunate example, as the old English long-s gets its own Unicode
codepoint.
Whoops. I suppose I should thank you for the correction so I never make
the same error again. Thank you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
Very interesting to find out the source of both the integral sign and
shilling symbols.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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