Re: Unicode & Shorthand?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Sep 22 2004 - 14:34:21 CDT

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    At 19:49 +0100 2004-09-21, Timothy Partridge wrote:

    >Some abbreviations (about twenty?) did have more common use and there are
    >many 19th century UK books published in "record type" which reproduce
    >ancient records. Many of the abbreviations don't have a unique expansion so
    >converting into expanded plain text loses the original ambiguity.

    Correct, and work is ongoing to encode them. If you have references
    please forward them to me.

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


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