Re: Guttenburg was the Unicode Consortium?

I have a copy of the typecase layout used by Caxton as reconstructed by
William Blades.
It contains the characters thorn and eth and also 22 special accented
characters and in excess of 50 ligatures. Are we to believe everything
because it is on the web ???
Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Cimarosti" <marco.cimarosti@...>
To: <qalam@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:47 PM
Subject: RE: Guttenburg was the Unicode Consortium?


| Tamrin wrote:
| > Well of course not, but this article on the demise of thorn:
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| > http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/11/12/31017/737
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| > highlights the importance of character inclusion in technology
| > advances. I didn't realize the issue went back this far, I imagine
| > the advent of the typewriter must have had a similar impact in places.
| >
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