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Much help appreciated! [[User:Xhin|Xhin]] 20:35, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

:I'm not sure there was any general "glyph rotation". The early 1st millennium BC Phoenician letter Alep looks like a rotated capital "A" (rotated a little more than 90 degrees, rather than 45 degrees), but the actual shape history of its later evolution through Greek into Latin is in fact somewhat more complicated. Indo-Arabic numerals have a completely different history than Latin leters (and the two have been used together for less than a thousand years, I think). [[User:AnonMoos|AnonMoos]] 21:00, 6 November 2006 (UTC)