the usage of LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH STROKE

[Janusz S. Bien]

Quote/Cytat - Gerrit Ansmann <gansmann at uni-bonn.de> (Sun 31 May 2015  
05:01:36 PM CEST):

> 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).

Thank you very much for the link to old Norwegian (I was aware of Sencoten).

Best regards

JSB

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