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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: unicode is a fail
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Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
> On 02-Dec-15 10:18, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>> UTF-8 is the best compromise. But there are some problem that are
>> very hard to avoid., like supporting archaic ash and thorn in English
>> (mediaeval, ye olde coffee shoppe), when half the population think
>> the latter is a y as in yellow.
>
> What problems?
>
> wynn Ƿ ƿ
> thorn Þ þ
> eth Ð ð
> ash Æ æ
> ethel Œ œ
> yogh Ȝ ȝ
> ond ⁊
>
> This message is encoded in UTF-8, and unless your system doesn't have
> any fonts with the proper glyphs (unlikely), you should see them fine.

That last one is U+204A, "TIRONIAN SIGN ET".  There doesn't appear to be
anything in Unicode called "ond".

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