Re: Looking for 5 old Spanish letters.

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Thu Dec 16 1999 - 20:29:45 EST


At 04:57 PM 16-12-99 -0800, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

>U+0071 LATIN SMALL LETTER Q + U+0303 COMBINING TILDE

>Presumably this is a manuscript abbreviation for something
>like "quando" or whatever.

quae

At least, on most texts it is quae, but might occasionally be encountered
as qua.

Has anyone seriously considered or attempted a proposal for encoding
scribal contractions in the surrogate planes?

John Hudson

Tiro Typeworks
Vancouver, BC
www.tiro.com
tiro@tiro.com



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