Lars Marius Garshol wrote: > | I've been looking for the the character used in Norwegian (and > | possibly elsewhere) as an abbreviation for "that is to > say", "in other > | words", "i.e.". It looks like a reversed lower-case "c" > followed by a > | colon. > > * Otto Stolz > | > | You mean “ɔ:”? > > That is: U+0254 U+003A. (Open o, or turned c, followed by colon.) > > Kind of, but it's a single character.
What makes you say that it is a "single character"? From your description, it sounds like it is just a single symbol. A symbol can sometimes be made of a single character (e.g. "#" or "$"), sometimes of a sequence of characters (e.g. "i.e." or "Km"). > Kind of, but it's a single character. I take it this means that it's > not encoded in Unicode? I think it depends whether or not it is identical to a (sequence of) Unicode character(s), and whether or not there are reasons to logically distinguish it from this (sequence of) Unicode character(s). Can you show a scan of the symbol from printed matter? > Does anyone know of an international name for this character, or any > use of it outside Norway? What's its name in Norwegian? _ Marco
