A sign/abbreviation for "magister"

Hans Åberg via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Sun Dec 2 03:33:37 CST 2018


> On 30 Oct 2018, at 22:50, Ken Whistler via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
> 
> On 10/30/2018 2:32 PM, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
>> but we can't seem to agree on how to encode its abbreviation. 
> 
> For what it's worth, "mgr" seems to be the usual abbreviation in Polish for it.

It was common in the 1800s to singly and doubly underline superscript abbreviations in handwriting according to [1-2], and [2] also mentions the abbreviation discussed in this thread.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator#cite_note-1





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