Indeed, the original Unicode inclusion request justifies the need for an encoding for the character by referencing prior usage going back all the way to 1879: h

Indeed, the original Unicode inclusion request justifies the need for an encoding for the character by referencing prior usage going back all the way to 1879: https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3227.pdf https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3227.pdf It may be a typographical abomination, but it's an intentional representation of that particular typographical abomination, just as the ox head in "A" intentionally has its horns pointing down.