From: André Szabolcs Szelp (a.sz.szelp@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2008 - 02:49:44 CDT
Hello, Leo!
The lowercase T is not exactly weired if you know cyrillic history. In
cursive, it's actually still reflected. This shape originates from
exaggerating the vertical half-serifs on the horizontal T-bar,
originally motivated by the attempt to make the T clearly distinct
from the cyrillic Ge.
As for the quotation marks, I have seen several versions of the
guillemets, namely comma-shaped and half-moon shaped ones. They either
came in pairs, or if not (as used today in Nordic countries), they
would have a clear directionality and could be clearly glyph variation
of the guillemets. (Or in the case of the comma-shaped ones, they
could be also considered a glyph variation of the regular english
opening and closing quotation marks, where the variation is not in the
shape versus angled guillemets, but in the position versus the
traditional ones).
Now, the glyph you have demonstrated could be either considered a
"undirectional/unpaird guillemet-type quotation mark", which could be
eligible for encoding, or it could be considered a glyph variation of
the RIGHT POINTING guillemet in analogy of the Swedish and Finnish use
of
»Quotation comes here»
--- I'd personally prefer the latter notion.
/Szabolcs
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