[Ads-l] Happy Þornsday!

[Michael Everson]

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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