Old and Middle English characters

The following table lists the names used to search for Old and Middle English characters.

• Exact character searching

Character	Name	Appearance
Insular g (upper-case)	Asg
Insular g (lower-case)	asg
edh (upper-case)	Edh	Ð
edh (lower-case)	edh	ð
thorn (upper-case)	Th	Þ
thorn (lower-case)	th	þ
wynn (upper-case)	Wyn
wynn (lower-case)	wyn
yogh (upper-case)	Ygh
yogh (lower-case)	ygh

Note that some of these ligatures may also be accented, in which case the name of the character should be extended by the name of the accent(s), as in searching for accented roman characters. For example, þ with a bar through it () is called #thbar#.