On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:32:40 -0700 (PDT), Markus Kuhn wrote:
>John Cowan wrote on 1999-07-22 19:05 UTC:
>> What happened to U+20B0 GERMAN PENNY SYMBOL
>
>Where does this symbol come from and what does it look like?
>Is the proposal and rationale for including it somewhere online?
I don't know where it comes from but to me it looks like a German
handwritten (S�tterlin) small "d". But this may be only a visual
resemblance.
I can send you a GIF, I you wish.
>Markus
>(a poor German who has neither ever seen a German penny symbol anywhere,
>nor is aware of any currency unit "penny" ever used anywhere in the land
>of Schiller, Goethe, and Walkes.)
I have no physical evidence of the _real_ use of the Pfennig symbol,
right now. About 20 years ago we had a corner shop
("Tante-Emma-Laden") in our street. The owner used the Pfennig symbol
on the price labels. I can remember things like this, because I was
always facinated of "strange" symbols.
My father (who is 70) and my grandmother (who is 90) still know the
Pfennig symbol very well.
I have evidence of the use of the Pfennig symbol in printed form in
dictionaries, though. One of them is "Lexikon der Abk�rzungen" by
Bertelmann Lexikon Verlag.
Along with the Pfennig symbol the Pfund symbol (pound; weight not
currency) was used on this price labels. It looks like a small cursive
"u" where the tail on the bottom right side is lengthened in S-form
and overlaps the "u" (hard to describe this thing). My mother still
uses this symbol when she makes notes.
In printed form I saw it only in dictionaries.
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