From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Jan 05 2008 - 05:19:32 CST
On 04/01/2008, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Some other interesting ligatures to consider are those used in Old French
> (or Old Catalan) such as:
>
> * The "pro" (or "per"? this depends on the way the word was actually
> pronounced by various speakers) ligature (which car occur also in the middle
> of a word or as a word prefix like in "profontd" that became "pfontd" before
> becoming "fond" in today's French), written like a p with a horizontal
> stroke cutting the descender, quite similar to a underscored p (however,
> typographical underscores should not cut the descenders of letters).
A750 and A751 in Unicode 5.1
See <http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3027.pdf> for a proposal
for many such special letters used in medieval manuscripts and early
printing. These are all in Unicode 5.1.
Andrew
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