[Ads-l] Happy Þornsday!

[Mark Mandel]

I don't understand. What about Ƿ & Ᵹ, and "quantity"?

MAM

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 10:18 AM Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark! Thanks for celebrating.
>
> It is still there. I don’t know how you got the “wynnyogh" transformed
> into “quantity” though.
>
> http://www.evertype.com/standards/wynnyogh/thorn.html
>
> Michael Everson
>
> > On 9 Jun 2020, at 12:56, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > On Þornsday, 1994-06-09, CEN/TC304 resolved that in a default
> multilingual European sort, ÞORN shall be sorted as a separate letter after
> Z. Subsequently, ISO/TC37/SC2/WG3 resolved that in its work on alphabetical
> ordering, ÞORN shall be sorted as a separate letter after Z. Most recently,
> JTC1/SC22/WG20 resolved that in its work of producing a default
> multilingual sort for ISO/IEC 10646, ÞORN shall be sorted as a separate
> letter after Z.
> >
> >
> > Copied years ago from
> >
> > http://www.evertype.com/standards/quantity/thorn.html
> > <http://www.evertype.com/standards/wynnyogh/thorn.html>
> >
> > which is now *404 Not found*.
> >
> > Mark Mandel
>
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