ME>> No. The Mac put a "florin sign" into their code table, and
users took > advantage of it as an abbreviation for "folder" in
directory names. Unicode > unification of "florin sign" with
"African f-hook" has given rise to the > mapping 0xC4 ->
U+0192.
>
JJ>I've never see Apple anywhere *recommend* the use of the
florin sign for "folder" in directory names. We ourselves tend
to use the word "folder" (or equivalent) or nothing. But it's
a handy abbreviation and a lot of people use it.
JJ>Similarly I've seen a lot of people use pi for "project" and
so on. And there were rumors that some people were using the
old universal currency sign as a field separator in databases
before we had to pull it to make room for the euro. These
practice has grown up to take advantage of the symbols in the
code set. We have never defined the *meaning* of the symbols
that way.
It would seem, then, that we're talking about idiosyncratic
usage in the past that probably should have no bearing on
things like normalisation or case mappings.
Peter
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