Mr Whistler parried:

>Mr. Everson said:
>
>>  Actually, in my Gaelic fonts on the Mac OS I substituted the shamrock
>  > for that position. At some stage I will be requesting a shamrock....
>
>And will ye be askin' for the top to be green, and the bottom to be
>orange, now?
>
>http://www.gardencentre.ie/shamrock.htm

Well, no. The colours should go from left to right. :-)

>P.S. perhaps a glyph variant of LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O, as in:
>
>*Oh* the Shamrock,
>The green, immortal Shamrock!
>Chosen leaf
>Of Bard and Chief,
>Old Erin's native Shamrock!

May the gods forgive you.

No, Ken, I would encode the symbol which on xix of �slensk ordab�k 
1992 means "grasafr�di" 'botany'.
-- 
Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com

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