Medieval Unicode Font Initiative A proposal for supplementary characters in Unicode: Medieval Nordic   Subrange 12: Critical and epigraphical signs 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; 0000 LEFT UPPER SLANTED STROKE &slstrupr; 0000 RIGHT UPPER SLANTED STROKE &slstrlol; 0000 LEFT LOWER SLANTED STROKE &slstrlor; 0000 RIGHT LOWER SLANTED STROKE &tricorr; 0000 TRIANGULAR DOTS (POINTING DOWNWARDS) (*) * Used to indicate a correction in the manuscript. Cf. D.A. Seip, Palæografi: Norge og Island (Nordisk kultur 23:B), Oslo etc. 1954, p. 34. Version 2.0, 5 February 2003 OEH