I seem to remember from reading a book many years ago, maybe around
fifty years ago, something about one of the early chemists (Lavoisier?)
having used two symbols, each a spiral, mirror images of each other, for
two different things, maybe oxidation and reduction, in his manuscript
but he had
Emoji proposals aren’t notable for their uniform quality. There are guidelines,
but essentially the subcommittee approves things they like and don’t approve
things they don’t like.
> On 18 Feb 2019, at 12:52, Andrés Sanhueza via Unicode
> wrote:
>
> I understand the difference. My question wa
I understand the difference. My question was why it was needed to have both
spirals as different characters instead of a single one that can be either,
as the proposal didn't specify an use case where there is a semantic
difference between each one.
El sáb., 16 feb. 2019 a las 11:26, Michael Ever
> Question: Why both a right and left facing spiral are exactly need? Isn't a
> single one (whose direction is just a glyph variant) enough? There was a
> previous thread that also suggested these very symbols, but otherwise I have
> found no evidence of the specific need for it.
Clockwise and
El mar., 22 ene. 2013 a las 19:11, Karl Pentzlin ()
escribió:
> Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 um 01:11 schrieb Andrés Sanhueza:
>
> AS> I have wondered if it may be a good idea to make a proposal to an
> AS> "spiral" character, basically because I believe is the only mayor
> AS> symbol recurrently
>> I feel that it would be helpful if there were symbols that could be used in
>> a non-language-specific manner for phrases such as "Hello" and "Thank you"
>> and "Best regards," and so on.
> Most ideographs in use are pictographs, for obvious reasons. But it would be
> nice indeed to have ide
acceptance in the UTC.
Michel
From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf
Of Asmus Freytag
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:08 PM
To: Mark E. Shoulson
Cc: Deborah W. Anderson; unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: External Link (Was: Spiral symbol)
On 1/31/2013 5:55
On 1/31/2013 5:55 PM, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
So if a generic "external link" symbol isn't acceptable, I definitely
see reason for at least the adoption of box-with-arrow, possibly
*called* EXTERNAL LINK or something.
Make that: possibly "aliased" or "annotated" as one of the symbols used
to i
On 01/31/2013 08:36 PM, Asmus Freytag wrote:
Mark,
in my view, the key aspect of the notice cited by Debbie, is the
rejection of an "external link" semantic, which would act as a kind of
generic code and could be rendered in many different ways.
Fair enough, I guess. I think we've done some
inal Message-
From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On
Behalf Of Mark E. Shoulson
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 5:27 PM
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: External Link (Was: Spiral symbol)
I found myself the other day looking once again for the character
representation of th
...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On
Behalf Of Mark E. Shoulson
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 5:27 PM
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: External Link (Was: Spiral symbol)
I found myself the other day looking once again for the character
representation of the "external link&
Maybe it is more along the lines of EXTERNAL CONTEXT SYMBOL.
Á
I’ve just realized that Google Analytics uses the exact same symbol to
indicate popup windows.
Á
I have a strong feeling that the symbol has a broader meaning than
merely denoting external links. I would suggest examining symbols used
in place of the phrase “see” in encyclopaedia, which indicate the
presence of more information in some other place.
Á
I remember that I made a font at the time.
http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1208
While opening the font in the FontCreator program this morning from the list of
installed fonts on the computer that I an using, I found that there is also
another font, External Link Symbol in a fi
I found myself the other day looking once again for the character
representation of the "external link" sign so prevalent on Wikipedia and
Mathworld and other sites. There has got to be enough evidence for
recording something like this. And I've seen a proposal for it too!
http://www.unicode
A very accessible book on all this is "The Chinese Language: Fact and
Fantasy" by John De Francis, published in 1984 by University of Hawaii
Press. There is a brief synopsis on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chinese_Language:_Fact_and_Fantasy
- Tim
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:46 PM,
On 2013年1月30日, at 上午4:50, Andreas Stötzner wrote:
> Most ideographs in use are pictographs, for obvious reasons. But it would be
> nice indeed to have ideograms for “thanks”,
謝
> “please”,
請
> “yes”,
對
> “no”,
不
> “perhaps”
許
> – all those common notions which cannot be de-*picted* in
Thank you for your comments.
Here are some pictographs displayed well in Google street view.
http://maps.google.com/?ll=47.279364,0.421498&spn=0.001321,0.002248&t=m&z=18&layer=c&cbll=47.279429,0.420475&panoid=Q_-nApHRA1Aq9IN4YPRzGQ&cbp=12,175.95,,0,4.88
Zooming-in three times is possible.
One c
Am 30.01.2013 um 12:56 schrieb William_J_G Overington:
> I feel that it would be helpful if there were symbols that could be used in a
> non-language-specific manner for phrases such as "Hello" and "Thank you" and
> "Best regards," and so on.
But there are, plenty of it. Though not yet for the
On Tuesday 22 January 2013, Karl Pentzlin wrote:
> If you have no access to the L2 document list, you can find the document at
> http://www.pentzlin.com/ComicSymbolsV2.pdf .
>
> - Karl
Thank you.
The pdf made by me on 3 June 2011 with the file name locse010_art.pdf might be
of interest as it
Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 um 01:11 schrieb Andrés Sanhueza:
AS> I have wondered if it may be a good idea to make a proposal to an
AS> "spiral" character, basically because I believe is the only mayor
AS> symbol recurrently used for represent "swearing" in comics that's
AS> missing from Unicode.
Le 22/01/2013 01:11, Andrés Sanhueza a écrit :
I have wondered if it may be a good idea to make a proposal to an
"spiral" character,
You might be interested by this 2011 thread on the mailing list, which
was about the way do encode symbols :
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m
These may be a suitable standins in the mean time :P
http://shapecatcher.com/unicode/info/127845
http://shapecatcher.com/unicode/info/127744
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> On 1/21/2013 4:11 PM, Andrés Sanhueza wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>> I have wondered if it may be a good
On 1/21/2013 4:11 PM, Andrés Sanhueza wrote:
Hello.
I have wondered if it may be a good idea to make a proposal to an
"spiral" character, basically because I believe is the only mayor
symbol recurrently used for represent "swearing" in comics that's
missing from Unicode.
If it should come to
Hello.
I have wondered if it may be a good idea to make a proposal to an "spiral"
character, basically because I believe is the only mayor symbol recurrently
used for represent "swearing" in comics that's missing from Unicode. Most
of the time it is replaced with the more common at (@), but still a
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