I'm catching up on this one. Barbara Beeton <[log in to unmask]> writes: > but there's one pseudo-overlap: > 1D48D (italic "ell") is often > replaced or substituted by 2113 > (the curly "ell") by meticulous > authors. U+2113 (\ell ℓ), is actually, I think, a character unto itself like the Weierstrass 'p'. (I'm thinking that it was on one of the ibm selectric balls in the 1960s, but I'm not sure about that.) -- Bill