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A BBC News strap earlier this year , around the time of the D-Day anniversary, had World War II typed in shorthand as ' WW11 '
Which of course would be no problem with Gill Sans's default numeral "1".
The current astons don't use Gill... Are you trapped in a previous era?
Well, that last bit's debatable, some would say so.
Seriously, howecer, I was thinking how it wouldn't have been an issue before with Gill Sans, and that perhaps it's an overhang from that era. You wouldn't want it corrected to "Wii" or "the WI", after all.
Subtitles are one thing, and excusable, given they are often generated from speech recognition devices, but I understand Sky News had the following as a breaking news caption on Sunday:
BRITISH WITH DRAWAL
A BBC News strap earlier this year , around the time of the D-Day anniversary, had World War II typed in shorthand as ' WW11 '
Which of course would be no problem with Gill Sans's default numeral "1".
The current astons don't use Gill... Are you trapped in a previous era?
Well, that last bit's debatable, some would say so.
Seriously, howecer, I was thinking how it wouldn't have been an issue before with Gill Sans, and that perhaps it's an overhang from that era. You wouldn't want it corrected to "Wii" or "the WI", after all.
