Hello Philippe, 2003-12-14T16:56:10Z Philippe Verdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Snip... > I find nothnig wrong in proposing a font which does not have these symbols > for use in European scripts, where the occurence of the symbol is almost > always associated to the Nazi's party, but I think it would be wrong to > remove them from fonts designed for Asian markets that need it to represent > their script, in a context where such association is not self-evident. AFAIK the use of the symbol is forbidden in the names/logos of organizations in Russia. It, unsurprisingly, was present here before, e.g., it was printed on the Russian money in 1917 or so. ...snip... > However there's still a problem with the ancient scandinavian usage: I guess it is more appropriate to speak about the ancient Babylonian or rather ancient Russian (Boreal) use. See, for instance, [1]. > it's > not clear that the symbol would only fit in Asian fonts. However the symbols > could be present in fonts made to represent old European scripts such as > Runic, even if they have been used in translations to Roman-Latin or > Church-Latin of these texts, with a Latin or Gothic script, or even in some > other Uralic languages. References: [1] ISBN 5-85141-016-7, p. 38. Regards, Alexander. -- Alexander Savenkov http://www.xmlhack.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xmlhack.ru/authors/croll/
