On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 06:56:18 -0700 (PDT), Otto Stolz wrote:
>Am 1999-07-23 um 6:16 hat Torsten Mohrin geschrieben:
>> Along with the Pfennig symbol the Pfund symbol (pound; weight not
>> currency) was used on these price labels. It looks like a small cursive
>> "u" where the tail on the bottom right side is lengthened in S-form
>> and overlaps the "u" (hard to describe this thing).
>
>Rather, this is "lb" in handwriting, an abreviation for "libra" (Latin for
>"pound"). I deem this a glyph variant of U+2114.
Yes. Obviously this shape is the result of the transformation from
handwriting back to print. I added a note on the web page.
BTW: Does someone (Unicode Consortium?) record those glyph variants
and provide them as additional information for implementers and font
designers?
-- Torsten Mohrin Sharmahd Computing GmbH, Hannover, Germany Phone: +49-511-13780, Fax: +49-511-13450 http://www.sharmahd.com, mohrin@sharmahd.com
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