ambrette, yet again

[Pierre Abbat]

>   "And in the Gothic script which became common in Germany,
>    as well as the German script that developed from it....
>    To prevent falsification of a number, the last digit i
>    was always lengthened and written as a j."

The last i was written as j even when it was followed by ss (1/2), but not when
followed by x or v. So I don't think it was to prevent falsification.

phma