>> I expect that even this explanation will not satisfy those who
>> think that oddities like this should not exist in character names.
>> But that is just the nature of the historical development of big
>> standards like the Unicode Standard when you have to deal with very
>> many opinions expressed by very many parties and develop consensus
>> in standards committees. You inevitably end up with historical
>> oddities.
>
> Which is to say, every character has a story, [...]
Are such `stories' collected somewhere? I wish a long life to all the
core members of Unicode, but just imagine that Ken is no longer
responsive...
Werner