Aw: Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

From: Jörg Knappen <jknappen_at_web.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 11:07:23 +0100
Sigh, I have to correct the attribution of the character identification, I meant Raymond Mercier and I should also mention Asmus Freytag in the place of Frédéric Grosshans.
 
--Jörg Knappen
 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 05. Januar 2016 um 10:10 Uhr
Von: "Jörg Knappen" <jknappen@web.de>
An: "Asmus Freytag (t)" <asmus-inc@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: unicode@unicode.org
Betreff: Aw: Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)
I have looked up some printed sources and I agree with Michael Everson and Frédéric Grosshans that the
beast in question is a variant of the greek letter tau (capital or lowercase).
 
Here are the relevant sources I consulted:
 
Carl Faulmann: Das Buch der Schrift. Enthaltend die Schriftzeichen und Alphabete aller Zeiten und aller Völker des Erdkreises. Verlag der kaiserlich königlichen Staatsdruckerei. Wien 1878, 2. verm. und verb. Aufl. 1880 p.171
Hans Jensen: Die Schrift in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, 3. Auflage p.459
 
Here is a quote from Hans Jensen:
   Noch in modernen Drucken finden wir die Formen ϐθϖ3ϲ7, wo andere βϑπζςτ haben.
Note: i had to fake the zeta symbol with a digit 3 and the tau symbol with a digit 7 here. In German typesetting tradition the theta symbol ϑ is the preferred form, not the straight theta θ.
 
My Opinion: The Greek Zeta Symbol and the Greek Tau Symbol are on the same footing as the "lunate sigma" alreay encoded in Unicode. They should be added in both lowercase and capital form.
 
--Jörg Knappen
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