Re: Use of Unicode Symbol 26A0

2014-06-04 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 6/3/2014 10:17 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: On the practical side, it might be in order to warn against usage that relies on some particular interpretation like that. What I mean is that it is OK to use WARNING SIGN as warning about risk of personal injury, but questionable to expect that

Use of Unicode Symbol 26A0

2014-06-03 Thread Papendick, Michelle
Good Day - Just wondering if Unicode provides for or anyone know of documentation for standard usage around the following symbol: [cid:image001.png@01CF7C48.A6D54D00] Noticed that is it used in many applications as a general warning or error symbol, but upon research it is also the symbol for

Re: Use of Unicode Symbol 26A0

2014-06-03 Thread Asmus Freytag
Michelle, Unicode normally does not document all known usages of symbols. Occasionally, if a symbol is used in ways that might be unexpected from its name, the standard may add an alias or annotation. This is done in particular, when there is a question of whether a given symbol is the

Re: Use of Unicode Symbol 26A0

2014-06-03 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2014-06-03 19:13, Asmus Freytag wrote: Unicode normally does not document all known usages of symbols. Not to mention unknown usages. Characters will be used in different ways, no matter what the Unicode Standard says, and it would be mostly pointless to put restrictions on it. In some