soon as DOS-based and Mac computers came with a code page for such characters. Other languages In Belarusian Łacinka (both in the 1929 and 1962 versions), corresponds to Cyrillic (El), and is normally pronounced (almost exactly as in English pull). In Navajo and Elaponke, is used for a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative , like the Welsh double L. is used in orthographic transcription of Ahtna, an Athabaskan language spoken in Alaska; it represents a breathy lateral fricative. It is also used in Tanacross, a related Athabaskan language. When writing IPA for some Scandinavian dialects which involve the pronunciation of a retroflex flap , e.g. in Eastern Norwegian dialects, authors may employ . When transcribing Armenian into the Latin alphabet, may be used to write the letter , for example Ղուկաս => Łukas. In Classical Armenian, was pronounced as , which morphed into in both standard varieties of modern Armenian. Other transcriptions of include , or . Computer usage The Unicode codepoints for the letter are U+0142 for the lower case, and U+0141 for the capital. In the LaTeX typesetting system and may be typeset with the commands \L{} and \l{}, respectively. The HTML-codes are &#0321; and &#0322; for and , respectively. See also Ў, ў – short U (Belarusian Cyrillic) £ – pound sign In Venetian, a similar glyph , (L with bar, a horizontal bar) is used as substitution for L in many words in which the pronunciation of "L" has changed for some dialects, i.e. by becoming voiceless or becoming the sound of the shorter vowel corresponding to or . References External links Kreska ukośna in Polish Diacritics: How to?, by Adam Twardoch, Polish country delegate at ATypI L stroke Belarusian language L stroke Navajo language Polish letters with diacritics