Two asterisks aligned vertically (war einmal: Aw: Re: Is there a Greek version of the INTERROBANG?)

[Joao S. O. Bueno]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 17:11, Jörg Knappen via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org>
wrote:

> The two vertically aligned asterisks occur in traditional sequences of
> footnote markers from the 19th century and earlier. Since all other
> footnote markers are single Unicode characters it is reasonable to treat
> this one on equal footing.
>
>


This one?
 Character(code=0x2051, value='⁑', name='TWO ASTERISKS ALIGNED VERTICALLY',
category='Po', width='N')
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--Jörg Knappen
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> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 18. September 2020 um 22:31 Uhr
> *Von:* "abrahamgross--- via Unicode" <unicode at unicode.org>
> *An:* "Doug Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org>
> *Cc:* unicode at unicode.org, "'Marius Spix'" <marius.spix at web.de>
> *Betreff:* Re: Is there a Greek version of the INTERROBANG?
> Not to bash on "Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols,
> and Other Typographical Marks", but it doesn't really have much information
> past the what you can find on the wikipedia articles of the punctuation
> marks it talks about. also a lot of the information isn't researched
> thoroughly enough for a satisfying history of the given punctuation mark.
>
> Like in the asterisk chapter the author talks about how ⁑ U+2051 TWO
> ASTERISKS ALIGNED VERTICALLY is buried in the depths of unicode for some
> unknown reason, when it was used in the past for specific reasons (which is
> why unicode added it)
> 2020/09/18 午前10:40:44 Doug Ewell via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org>:
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> > Marius Spix wrote:
> >
> >> So you could compose an exclamation mark with a comma instead of a dot
> >> with U+0049 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I and U+0326 COMBINING COMMA BELOW,
> >> but it still does not look right
> >
> > That's because it isn't right. The exclamation mark is not derived from
> a capital I.
> >
> >> and I am not even sure, if there is any evidence for such a character.
> >
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation#%22Question_comma%22,_%22exclamation_comma%22
> >
> > There are actually books about punctuation. One, which I regrettably do
> not yet own, is "Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols,
> and Other Typographical Marks," by Keith Houston. Such works might be
> useful for answering this question and the earlier one about the origin of
> the less-than sign.
> >
> > --
> > Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
> >
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