Re: Never say never

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 13:07:46 EST

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At 18:38 +0100 2003-02-11, Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>- code: U+213B
>- name: FACSIMILE SIGN
>- compatibility decomposition: U+0046 U+0041 U+0058
>- translation in plain English: a character to encode the word "FAX", in all
>capitals.

Surely not. I am pretty sure that is the Icelandic word FAX, genitive
FÖX, meaning 'mane'. (Cf Gandalf's horse "Shadowfax".) In this case
it's the name that's misleading.

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