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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I'm a bit confused here.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Inspecting the page I don't see the use
of "rotate()" and when I look at source text as well as
cut&paste, I see *⁎* composed from two six pointed and one
five pointed asterisk.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">That seems a crude representation of
what is in print, in that the print original seems to have three
identical asterisks.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">A./<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/30/2023 11:52 AM, Marius Spix via
Unicode wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">This is not font-specific. They use the rotate() css function. It seems that the typesetter also used three separate glyphs. That “reversed asterism” is 3 en wide and does not overlap like the reference glyph for the asterism.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Gesendet: Donnerstag, den 30.03.2023 um 20:10 Uhr
Von: "James Kass via Unicode" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org"><unicode@corp.unicode.org></a>
An: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org">unicode@corp.unicode.org</a>
Betreff: Re: Inverted asterism
On 2023-03-30 4:54 PM, David Starner via Unicode wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">There doesn't seem to be an inverted asterism in Unicode. Is there a
good reason there's not?
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Monthly_scrap_book,_for_February.pdf/24">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Monthly_scrap_book,_for_February.pdf/24</a>
shows the example I have at hand, from an 1832 English-language
periodical from Scotland.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Looking at it in the browser, the two 'stacked asterisks' match.
Copy/pasting the line into a plain-text editor (which uses a different
font) shows one asterisk above and two below.
⁂ The above short Hints were submitted to the ...
Would this be considered a glyph variant, or a separate character? Are
the two forms ever used contrastively in the same source?
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