Re: Use of U+203D (interrobang)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 13:36:44 CST

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At 10:37 -0800 2005-04-01, Patrick Andries wrote:

>I'm a bit surprised though that it made it in
>Unicode (could be construed as a ligature of !?

That would, I think, be an inappropriate
unification. Punctuation does not normally ligate.

>and doesn't seem to have caught on and be more
>widepread than other innovative punctuation
>marks like the « point d'ironie » (but it is not
>American ;-)).

Alcanter de Brahm's invention? Why not encode it?

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