Re: Are these characters encoded?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2001 - 05:37:18 EST


At 00:31 -0500 04/12/2001, DougEwell2@cs.com wrote:

>Yes, you are all right: the character used in (as it turns out)
>the medical field to mean "with" is, in fact, c-overbar and not c-underbar.
>In Unicode we would say U+0063 U+0305.

The overbar being a flat form of tilde, which in medieval hands were
used to indicate an omitted m or n following.

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Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com



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