This should be the 50,000,000 symbol, a capital D flanked by 2 vertical lines and surmounted by 1 horizontal line.
4 character entries seems terribly convoluted, perhaps better than PUA for forward-facing accessibility?
- 007C VERTICAL LINE
- 216E ROMAN NUMERAL FIVE HUNDRED
- 0305 COMBINING OVERLINE
- 007C VERTICAL LINE
Any suggestions for a better approach? I cannot find this in unicode.
Thanks
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The need is limited to 50,000,000? I mean, there are not only several other combinations, but also historic variations like circled X, barred V, etc. You may need other characters and also could consider a set of basic numbers with bar above to mount other high numbers if there is such demand.
With OpenType code it is also possible to transform regular numbers into Romans automatically. I did that some time ago (see the PDF below).
It really isn't: in digital text terms, a ligature is any glyph that represents more than one character.
I don't think it is a good idea to repurpose the .sc glyphs, because they have a different semantic meaning. For example, if you apply your feature on the number 1001, you would get M.sc zero.rm zero.rm I.sc. Consequently, an attempt to reconstruct the original number via the glyph names would give you M00I. With the above implementation, the semantic meaning of the sequence is preserved.
I appologize for going slightly off topic.