Subject: Re: symbols for `born' and `died' + guarani sign
Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu dot org wrote:
At least in Germany it is quite common to indicate the birth year with
a leading black five-pointed star and the death year with a leading
cross, resembling a dagger. Similarly, the year
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Reinhard Handwerker wrote,
Indeed, one could go a step further and introduce (?) a symbol for divorced:
Either one of the following offers itself as a candidate:
U+29DC INCOMPLETE INFINITY
U+29DE INFINITY NEGATED WITH VERTICAL BAR
How about U+238C ?
Best regards,
James Kass
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Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:00
To: Handwerker, Reinhard (ISS Atlanta)
Cc: Doug Ewell; Unicode Mailing List; Werner LEMBERG
Subject: RE: symbols for `born' and `died' + guarani sign
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Reinhard Handwerker wrote,
Indeed, one could go a step further and introduce (?) a symbol for divorced
For the married symbol use the mathematical infinity symbol:
U+221E (no pun intended).
Indeed, one could go a step further and introduce (?) a symbol for
divorced:
Either one of the following offers itself as a candidate:
U+29DC INCOMPLETE INFINITY
U+29DE INFINITY NEGATED WITH VERTICAL BAR
Lukas Pietsch wrote:
Actually, the symbol and several others already exist and seem to be
standardized. The Duden, the authoritative source on German
orthography, describes them in its section on typesetting practices,
under the heading of genealogical symbols. Besides the asterisk
(born), the
Either one of the following offers itself as a candidate:
U+29DC INCOMPLETE INFINITY
U+29DE INFINITY NEGATED WITH VERTICAL BAR
How about U+238C ?
Well, Jörg Knappen's font has a glyph for `divorced' which looks like
`o|o'.
Werner
For the married symbol use the mathematical infinity symbol:
U+221E (no pun intended).
Definitely not! Attached is a glyph of the font `tcrm1000' (for TeX).
Werner
inline: married.png
Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu dot org wrote:
At least in Germany it is quite common to indicate the birth year with
a leading black five-pointed star and the death year with a leading
cross, resembling a dagger. Similarly, the year of marriage is
depicted as two intertwined circles. How will
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