From: William J Poser (wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 09 2007 - 19:58:21 CST
I hope this isn't too trivial a question for this
list, but is there an encoding for the tally number
five? I don't even know a proper name for it. What
I mean is this. When counting things off, one sometimes
draws a vertical stroke for the first one, another vertical
stroke for the second one, etc., like this:
|
||
|||
||||
When one comes to five, instead of adding another vertical
stroke, one crosses the four vertical strokes from
upper right to lower left. One can approximate this
with |||| U+0338 "Combining long solidus overlay", but
it doesn't render very well. It isn't long enough and
doesn't cross the first vertical. I've looked through
the various symbol lists and combining characters but don't
find either another combining character or a single codepoint
for this symbol.
Bill
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