On 9 Jan 2013, at 11:39, Frédéric Grosshans <[email protected]> wrote:
> Note: this post is better read in a font distinguishing the 2 following > characters > ɡ U+0261 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G > g U+0067 LATIN SMALL LETTER G > > If you follow this link : > https://plus.google.com/photos/117306818777774106261/albums/5831399570749921169?authkey=COmLzZr3vPmNigE > you will find photos from a 1952 physics book by Louis de Broglie. While > reading it, I wondered about the identity of the character circled in red, > which was clearly neither G (in blue) nor g (in green), but somewhere in > between (both typographically and mathematically.) That looks like A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G, to me. > I didn't find it in Unicode, but it's maybe in the DAM2 draft repertoire > (n4380), as *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G proposed by Michael Everson > in n4030 “Proposal for the addition of five Latin characters to the UCS”, > because he needed an upper case conterpart to U+0261 ɡ LATIN SMALL LETTER > SCRIPT G for his “Ælɪsɪz Ədˈventʃəz ɪn ˈWʌndəlænd” book. This example is > obviously totally different, and too late to have any influence on the > encoding, but I think it might interest some reader of this list. I don't see how it would "influence the encoding". It's just more evidence of use in a different context. > However, it might also be an example of another character. If one compares > the green g's, the distinction between g U+0067 LATIN SMALL LETTER G and ɡ > U+0261 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G is clearly a glyph/font property in this > text, as the gⁱ in the text and the ɡⁱ in the equation just below below > correspond to the same physical quantity. This character could therefore be a > * LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SMALL G, a kind of symmetric character to ɢ U+0262 > LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G. The small capitals have independent existence in linguistics, but I would be very surprised to find mathematicians making that distinction. More likely the G and D are capitals. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
