News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why are there two ways to write the lowercase letter ‘a’? (2015). Parent comment

Re:Why are there two ways to write the lowercase letter ‘a’?... by ksaj on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:00PM (#27189426)
Have you seen anyone print the g with the backward loop, like the way it shows up on a typewriter, and the HN text input boxes?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why are there two ways to write the lowercase letter ‘a’?... by gerikson on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:14AM (#27191463)
The two 'g's are double-storey and single-storey (looptail/opentail):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G#Typographic_variants

FWIW the 'g's in my input box here are single-storey.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why are there two ways to write the lowercase letter ‘a’?... by ksaj on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:46PM (#27199219)
Mine shows the double-story circular loop in the input box, but the single-story opentail after clicking <reply>.

Having said that, you prompted me to search for "double-story a" and sure enough, it's the same thing as with the g.

[ Parent | on HN ]