Re: The Cent & Florin Signs VS. C-Slash & Left-Tailed F

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 08:06:23 EST


Ar 10:41 -0800 2000-01-19, scríobh Richard Gillam:

>Well, right now U+0192 has both semantics-- you're supposed to use it both for
>the florin symbol and f-hook. It looks like this might have been a false
>unification, but I suspect that that will rest on whether these characters
>always have identical appearances or whether their glyph shapes can be
>different.

They don't. The florin is almost always italic; the f-hook is only italic
when set in italic type.

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