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From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: (Font design) Do people really need these characters?
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Date: 19 Mar 91 12:27:32 GMT
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In article <DAMIAN.CUGLEY.91Mar15162805@msc9.prg.ox.ac.uk> Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) writes:
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<The proposed character encoding in TUGboat 11#4, includes an `eng' (the
<letter `n', with a tail, used to mean an `ng' sound in the IPA) together
<with its capital equivalent (a backwards `N' with a tail).  What
<language, if any, is this letter used in?

I know it's used in Lappish, and I think it's used in Hausa.  But I'd rather
see thorn, eth, and yogh in your font (unless you intend to include all the
other exotic letters Hausa requires as well :-) ).  If space in your font is
tight, you might want to drop eng.

<The PostScript fonts and the 11#4 encoding include a per-mille sign
<(which looks like % with the bottom bowl doubled) and 11#4 also has a
<per-million sign (% with bottom bowl tripled)!  Are these signs
<*actually used*?

I've seen per-mille used in the census reports of the People's Republic of
China.

					--Scott

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