the usage of LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH STROKE

Sun May 31 10:01:36 CDT 2015

On Sun, 31 May 2015 16:32:36 +0200, Janusz S. Bień <jsbien at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote:

> I'm curious what was the motivation for adding the character to Unicode.

According to the Code Chart for Latin Extended B (http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0180.pdf), it’s used for Sencoten. It was also used in some old Norwegian texts (for a start, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Kølle).