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From: John G Harris on 24 Apr 2008 06:27
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 at 18:27:55, in comp.lang.javascript, Dr J R
Stockton wrote:

<snip>
>Aside : is there a representation, known to browsers, for the old-style
> s as in "Ye olde faufage-fhop" in which I used f instead?

The HTML character entities don't include a long s, but they do include
the integral sign, &int; , which might do instead. It works in IE5.5+.
Failing that, you'll have to use a small image instead.

Incidentally, some early English printing displayed 'the' as a y with a
dot over it. Presumably a hand-written 'ye' was often abbreviated that
way.

John
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John Harris
From: Rik Wasmus on 24 Apr 2008 14:02
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:27:22 +0200, John G Harris
<john(a)nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 at 18:27:55, in comp.lang.javascript, Dr J R
> Stockton wrote:
>
> <snip>
>> Aside : is there a representation, known to browsers, for the old-style
>> s as in "Ye olde faufage-fhop" in which I used f instead?
>
> The HTML character entities don't include a long s, but they do include
> the integral sign, &int; , which might do instead. It works in IE5.5+.
> Failing that, you'll have to use a small image instead.
>
> Incidentally, some early English printing displayed 'the' as a y with a
> dot over it. Presumably a hand-written 'ye' was often abbreviated that
> way.

'y' was a substitution for the thorn symbol (&#254;), for which there was
no letter in print AFAIK. It would still be pronounced as 'th', making a
fool out of those saying a literal 'ye' nowadays. As far as I know, no
diacretics were added to this, but they were to the thorn character, which
can look like a y in written form, see
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/�#Abbreviations>.
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Rik Wasmus
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