Marco Cimarosti wrote: > The sign was in a word looking like "ȣρων" [...] If I understand correctly,
> the text also says that this sign is a diphthong which in Doric was sub- > stituted by a plain "ω" [...] > > Therefore, I tentatively identified the word as "ωυρων", and the > unknown glyph ligature as an "ωυ" ligature. > > Does anyone know whether such a ligature actually existed in old typography? > And was it anything like an open "8"? We have discussed this, back in February in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- though, IIRC, for some Canadian aborigines language, written, in Latin script, by French missionaries. It turned out to be U+0222 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OU U+0223 LATIN SMALL LETTER OU Best wishes, Otto Stolz
