KPS 9566 mappings (was Re: Arrow dingbats)

As someone who supports opening of KPS 9566 encoded files in my software (BabelPad), I am interested in those characters proposed by DPRK (http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/Docs/n2374.pdf) that were not accepted for encoding but which are still in the latest version of the DPRK standard, KPS 9566-20

Re: Arrow dingbats

Michel Suignard (editor of ISO/IEC 10646) responded to these questions, but let me augment his response with some more detailed history here. (Pardon the length of the reply, but these things tend never to be as simple as people assume and hope they are.) On 5/28/2015 2:08 PM, Chris wrote: So i

RE: Arrow dingbats

nts is beyond my control, but at least I work on having a decent reference in the official Unicode pdf charts (and 10646). Michel From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Chris Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 2:08 PM To: Unicode Discussion Subject: Re: Arrow dingbats So it sound

Re: Arrow dingbats

> On 28 May 2015 at 05:48, Chris wrote: >> >> Unicode has the arrow dingbats in the range 2b05 with names like “LEFTWARDS >> BLACK ARROW" >> conspicuously missing is the right arrow >> >> But everywhere I can see that has this arrow, it looks a lo

Re: Arrow dingbats

Andrew West wrote: > I don't know why the character was added in 7.0, but it may have been > prompted by the same question as yours that was asked on this list in > 2013 . And the answer, from Michel Suignard in http://www.unicode.

Re: Arrow dingbats

On 28 May 2015 at 05:48, Chris wrote: > > Unicode has the arrow dingbats in the range 2b05 with names like “LEFTWARDS > BLACK ARROW" > conspicuously missing is the right arrow > > But everywhere I can see that has this arrow, it looks a lot different to > the other a

Re: Arrow dingbats

Manuel Strehl wrote: > Interesting! Out of curiosity: How come this was recognized in Unicode > 7? > Is that documented anywhere? NamesList.txt contains this entry for the left arrow: 2B05LEFTWARDS BLACK ARROW x (black rightwards arrow - 27A1) x (rightwards black arrow - 2B9

Re: Arrow dingbats

Interesting! Out of curiosity: How come this was recognized in Unicode 7? Is that documented anywhere? 2015-05-28 17:03 GMT+02:00 Doug Ewell : > Chris wrote: > > > Unicode has the arrow dingbats ⬅⬆⬇⬈⬉⬊⬋ > > > > in the range 2b05 with names like “LEFTWARDS BLACK ARROW&qu

Re: Arrow dingbats

Chris wrote: > Unicode has the arrow dingbats ⬅⬆⬇⬈⬉⬊⬋ > > in the range 2b05 with names like “LEFTWARDS BLACK ARROW" > conspicuously missing is the right arrow > > The closest one can find is 27a1 “BLACK RIGHT ARROW" > ➡ > > But everywhere I can see that has

Arrow dingbats

Unicode has the arrow dingbats ⬅⬆⬇⬈⬉⬊⬋ in the range 2b05 with names like “LEFTWARDS BLACK ARROW" conspicuously missing is the right arrow The closest one can find is 27a1 “BLACK RIGHT ARROW" ➡ But everywhere I can see that has this arrow, it looks a lot different to