Pentagrams: (was: RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code)

2001-03-13 Thread Kenneth Whistler
> > > Pentagrams? I haven't seen those... where are they? > > > > Hmmm... This is possibly an Italian word badly Anglicized. I just meant > > "musical notation". > > Okay. I thought perhaps there were additions to "Misc Symbols" U+2600 .. > U+267F or elsewhere that I had missed. > In Italian

Re: Pentagrams: (was: RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code)

2001-03-13 Thread Pierpaolo BERNARDI
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Kenneth Whistler wrote: > In Italian, "Pentagramma" is a musical term. Cf. "Pentagramma per voce > sola", etc. Pentagramma = stave, staff (the five horizontal lines on which the notes are written) > But in English, a pentagram is an occult symbol-- a pentacle (5-pointed >

Re: Pentagrams: (was: RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code)

2001-03-13 Thread DougEwell2
In a message dated 2001-03-13 18:29:12 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > But in English, a pentagram is an occult symbol-- a pentacle (5-pointed > star), usually inscribed inside a circle, and associated with witchcraft, > sorcery, and (by some) Satanism. > > See http://ww

Re: Pentagrams: (was: RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code)

2001-03-13 Thread Curtis Clark
At 07:50 PM 3/13/01, Pierpaolo BERNARDI wrote: > > And no, the Unicode Standard hasn't encoded any pentagrams yet -- or > > hexagrams or baphomets, for that matter. > >Now that you mention them, someone will make a fuss over their absence. >8-) A lot of other religions managed to make it into Mis

Re: Pentagrams: (was: RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code)

2001-03-14 Thread Michael Everson
At 19:50 -0800 2001-03-13, Pierpaolo BERNARDI wrote: >Now that you mention them, someone will make a fuss over their absence. >8-) They have already been noticed. -- Michael Everson ** Everson Gunn Teoranta ** http://www.egt.ie 15 Port Chaeimhghein Íochtarach; Baile Átha Cliath 2; Éire/Irel

RE: Pentagrams: (was: RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code)

2001-03-14 Thread Marco Cimarosti
First of all, sorry for having started this demoniac thread. It was against my will -- I was probably possessed. >:-) As someone correctly inferred, what I meant was the Italian "pentagramma": the five horizontal lines used in musical notation or, by extension, "musical notation". BTW, "pentagra

RE: Pentagrams: (was: RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code)

2001-03-14 Thread Marco Cimarosti
I wrote: > F666;ANTICHRISTIAN ALTERNATIVE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER > T;Lu;0;L; 0054N0074; Ooops! it lowercase t, not uppercase. As I must correct myself, I take the occasion to make a better decomposition: F666;ANTICHRISTIAN ALTERNATIVE LATIN SMALL LETTER T;Ll;0;L; 0074 20E0;;

Re: Pentagrams: (was: RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code)

2001-03-14 Thread Bertrand Laidain
>A lot of other religions managed to make it into Miscellaneous Symbols >(although if Solomon's Seal/Mogen David is there, I'm not seeing it). No it is there : >From ITC Zapf dingbats series 100 Stars asteriks and snowflakes 2721 STAR OF DAVID Bertrand

Re: Pentagrams: (was: RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code)

2001-03-14 Thread Daniel Biddle
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Curtis Clark wrote: > At 07:50 PM 3/13/01, Pierpaolo BERNARDI wrote: > > > And no, the Unicode Standard hasn't encoded any pentagrams yet -- or > > > hexagrams or baphomets, for that matter. > > > >Now that you mention them, someone will make a fuss over their absence. > >8-)

RE: Pentagrams: (was: RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code)

2001-03-14 Thread Carl W. Brown
Doug, >U+235F > (APL is a rather demonic language, isn't it?) In more ways than one. His pitch fork U+2366 is there too. You wonder why IBM had so much trouble selling its first PCs. The 5101 cost more than $30K, came with one tape drive, plus 8K of memory and did not support floppies. The t