Marco Cimarosti <marco dot cimarosti at essetre dot it> wrote: >> There are also lots of characters that "mean" the same, but >> always (in a Unicode font in default mode) should/must >> look different. Like M and Roman Numeral One Thousand C D >> (just to take an example closer to Italy... ;-). > > Well, the first and only time I have seen that "Thousand C D" was on > the Unicode charts... However, if I'd be asked which glyph is more > appropriate for that character, I would say: the same as capital "M".
I would disagree with this. It seems to me the whole reason for both U+216F ROMAN NUMERAL ONE THOUSAND and U+2180 ROMAN NUMERAL ONE THOUSAND C D to exist is that they should have different glyphs. This is not necessarily is keeping with the purest spirit of Unicode (which might regard these as two glyphs of a single character), but in reality they are encoded as two characters. Note, however, that there is nothing wrong with using the same glyph for U+004D and U+216F, although in many fonts they are different for no obvious reason. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
