Medieval Unicode Font Initiative
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A
proposal for subranges within the Private Use Area
of Unicode:
Subrange 12. Critical and epigraphical signs: EB00 - EBFF Critical signs are used in printed editions, indicating corruptions, deletions, additions etc. The majority of these signs are already in Unicode 3.2, such as the asterisk (002A), the obelus (= dagger, 2020), curly brackets (007B, 007D), square brackets (005B, 005D), half square brackets (= quine corners, 231C, 231D, 231E, 231F), double square brackets (= white square brackets, 301A, 301B) single vertical line (007C), double vertical line (2016), and open brackets (= angle brackets, 3008, 3009). However, to my knowledge there are no appropriate characters in Unicode 3.2 for slanted strokes. These are typically used in a slightly raised position to indicate superlinear text in the manuscript, or in a lower position to indicate text in the margin of the manuscript. They should not be identified with the acute and grave accents, 02CA-02CB and 02CE-02CF, firstly because their use is quite different, and secondly because they have a steeper angle to the base line, equal width all along, and they are also slightly longer. Glyph Entity Unicode Descriptive
name &slstrupl; EB00 LEFT
UPPER SLANTED STROKE &slstrupr; 0000 RIGHT
UPPER SLANTED STROKE &slstrlol; 0000 LEFT
LOWER SLANTED STROKE &slstrlor; 0000 RIGHT
LOWER SLANTED STROKE |
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Version 1.0, 15 June 2002 OEH |