On 2003.11.10, 10:46, Philippe Verdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, some symbols used as function indicators are now quite
> omnipotent, and easily recognized with a well-defined meaning or
> function.
>
> Some of them are encoded in Wingdings or Webdings, but some others may
> merit their encoding as symbols, like:
> - the note tip,
You mean like a yellow sticker? Or something like "paper sheet with
folded corner"? (Hm if there is a U+2709 : ENVELOPE, why not folders and
stationnery?...)
> - the attachment symbol ("trombonne" in French, "Bürobriefklammer" in
> German, I don't know the term in English),
Paper clip?
> - the flag symbol (added by users reading lists of items, like emails
> in an inbox folder or interesting products in a catalog for which a
> future action is required),
U+2690 : WHITE FLAG or U+2691 : BLACK FLAG, why not?
> or the visual glasses (to mark interesting items)
What about U+269E : UNMARRIED PARTNERSHIP SYMBOL as a hack to it? ;-)
> - the dustbin ("corbeille") used to mark items without interest,
U+267C : RECYCLED PAPER SYMBOL instead, how about it? ;-)
> - religious symbols commonly found in newspapers in their classified
> necrologic ads.
I guess these are mostely encoded already, or soon to be. There are even
pretty unusuall styff like U+2671 : EAST SYRIAC CROSS and U+2670 : WEST
SYRIAC CROSS (lots of necrologic ads for them these days...), U+16C9 :
RUNIC LETTER ALGIZ EOLHX for satanist burial ads, or the zoroastrian
winged sun in the Ancient Egypt hyeroglyphs encoding proposal (I'm not
looking that one up...).
> more meaningful than <...> - national/regional flags and heraldic
> symbols (for the same reason that they require their ink colors and
> precise proportions and positioning to get their meaning).
Good grief! No flag designs nor heraldic charges were ever encoded to
the UCS as such! U+269C : FLEUR-DE-LIS was found suitable for encoding
based on its in line text use (dictionaries etc.), and U+2690 : WHITE
FLAG and U+2691 : BLACK FLAG are just diagram or map markers that must
appear in the relevant (text) caption.
(BTW, this vexillologist is preparing a proposal to encode a dozen of
heraldic and vexillological symbols, but these are also used in plain
text, they are not clipart elements...)
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