On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:38:46 +0100, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:19:42 +0100, Marco Cimarosti
> <marco.cimarosti@...> wrote:
>>
>> In Latin script, a similar confusion may arise between <m> and <w> and
>> between <n> and <u>, and that's probably why your father borrowed the
>> overscores from his Cyrillic hand.
>
> And indeed, it was formerly common to write a dash or breve over
> handwritten lower-case u's in Germany to distinguish them from n's. (I
> still see it occasionally, but I think the practice is more widespread
> among older people.)

When I started writing in Latin script again regularly a couple years back I
adopted this practice (overdashing the 'u') as well, as 'u' was identical to
'n'. I don't do this as often anymore (the disambiguation doesnt
seem to be worth the effort) though one of my rudimentary fonts of the time
does represent 'ū' by 'u'.



*Muke!
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