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On Behalf
> Of Ernest Cline


> TH WITH STRIKETHROUGH
> ITALIC TH LIGATED BY HOOK
> PLAIN TH LIGATED BY CROSSBAR
> 
> three separate glyphic representations of the same character
> 
> LEXICOGRAPHIC VOICED TH

No; three separate character representations of the same orthographic
function.


> Now if one were to take a dictionary that used any one of those
> three forms mentioned above and consistently replaced one
> glyph with another throughout the dictionary, would there truly
> be any difference in the text?

Me thinks the editorial staff of a given dictionary publisher that needs
to maintain it's conventions across different editions will certainly
say "yes".


Peter
 
Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division

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