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Re: Syllable structure - HELP!!!

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Monday, January 14, 2002, 16:18
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 05:57:46 -0500 > From: John Cowan <cowan@...> > > Danny Wier scripsit: > > Now Unicode describes the florin character (f) as "small letter f > > with hook". It lists its uses as "florin currency symbol > > (Netherlands)", "function symbol", and "abbreviation convention > > for folder". I wasn't aware of the last one....
> Comes from how Michael Everson names folders on his beloved > Macintosh...
Heh, I didn't think ME could get MS to adopt characters into Windows codepages... Anyway, it's not just him, the florin symbol was in lots of folder names on the early Mac systems. Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)