From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 06:14:46 EST
On 01/04/2004 16:33, jameskass@att.net wrote:
>See the currency symbol in use on postage stamps,
>http://www.bird-stamps.org/country/ghana.htm
>...notice the different glyphs in the third and fourth rows.
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>Best regards,
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>James Kass
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There are quite a lot of variant glyphs here, in the various rows: basic
glyphs the size of C, or of c, small versions raised, with overlaid
vertical or oblique lines or no line at all - the last on the lowest and
so probably most recent stamps. But the commonest version seems to be a
capital C overlaid by a VERTICAL line, so the suggestion to use C with
U+0338 COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY does not seem appropriate. I don't
think there is a vertical line overlay character, and anyway
combinations with overstruck diacritics seem to be deprecated. So it
seems that a clear case can be made to define a new character here. As
for temporary solutions until the new one is accepted and included in
fonts, the best one seems to be the one already widely used, the cent sign.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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