Re: U+25CA LOZENGE - why is it in the "Mac OS Roman" character set (and therefore widespread in current fonts)?

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Karl Pentzlin wrote:

> The problem I am confronted with is that this character shares
> its German name "Raute" with the "#"

I learnt in 7th grade what “Raute” means.
“#” is not a Raute.
The center field of “#” is called Raute or Rhombus.

BTW, Herr Pentzlin:

 http://www.machsmit.de/media/mainteaser/header-ichwillserleben.png
 http://www.machsmit.de/kampagne/printmedien.php
show what the braindead German DIN keyboard layout has done to
the apostrophe (’): Killed by the acute accent (´).

 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html

But if you don’t understand the difference between
a Raute and a Nummernzeichen, you probably can’t tell
an apostrophe (’) from an acute accent (´) either.
Received on Mon Aug 13 2012 - 11:16:38 CDT