Weird characters that are hard to pigeonhole. (was: how to tell japanese from chinese)

$B$i$s$^(B $B!z$8$e$&$$$C$A$c$s!z(B $B!!!_$"$+$M(B $B!(B: Re: How to tell Japanese from Chinese. On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, [ISO-2022-JP] $B$F$s$I$&$j$e$&$8(B wrote: My very simple rule of thumb for telling Japanese from Chinese is to look for kana. If I see even one kana, I

RE: Weird characters that are hard to pigeonhole. (was: how to tell japanese from chinese)

¤Æ¤ó¤É¤¦¤ê¤å¤¦¤¸ wrote: For instance, I wonder about the MEDIEVAL DIGIT FIVE, which you may have seen, whose glyph resembles DIGIT FOUR's glyph much more than it does DIGIT FIVE's glyph. How to encode it? I guess Unicode would call this a glyph variation. However I am curious: can you produce

Re: Weird characters that are hard to pigeonhole. (was: how to tell japanese from chinese)

I thought the medieval Irish Scribes borrowed it from the Hebrew. Se¨¢n - Original Message - From: Marco Cimarosti To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, 08 June, 2001 10:50 Subject: RE: Weird characters that are hard to pigeonhole. (was: how to tell japanese from

Re: Weird characters that are hard to pigeonhole. (was: how to tell japanese from chinese)

At 09:45 AM 6/8/01, =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJEYkcyRJJCYkaiRlJCYkOBsoQg==?= wrote: Is there a codepoint for MEDIEVAL AMPERSAND, which looks like modern DIGIT SEVEN, so much so that in modern books DIGIT SEVEN is used to transcribe it? U+204A TIRONIAN SIGN ET -- Curtis Clark