Comment 6 for bug 670768

I regard this as another codepoint reuse issue in Unicode - the florin
should have been given its own codepoint in the currency symbols range
rather than reuse the superficially similar f-with-hook.

The vast majority of existing fonts have an italic glyph mapped to
U+0192, because that was the usual form of the florin character when
these fonts were designed, and the designer was intending compatibility
with pre-Unicode encodings which featured the florin character. I think
the way forward has to be to treat U+0192 as an f-with-hook, not as a
florin.

Having said that, the argument that if you need a clear florin character
you can use the italic font is not quite realistic. In many cases the
user won't have any control over the styling of the text that they are
seeing, and the creator of the text won't know they need to style the
character.

Dave