What you'd like is in act similar to the zero-width joiner, between two combining sequences, to make them overlap. A sort of "negative-width" joiner that we could call "overlay joiner". So '!' + OVERLAY JOINER + '?' = '‽'.
But in legacy charsets, this role was encoded as a BACKSPACE control (it was used to produce combining accents as well, by combining a letter and a *spacing* accent), and I think it is still a solution for the same problem without needing a new character. So '!' + BACKSPACE + '?' = '‽'. 2015-05-28 22:33 GMT+02:00 Leonardo Boiko <[email protected]>: > Serious question: Has someone discussed a generic combining mechanism? I > mean, characters with an effect like "combine the last two". Say, '!' + > '?' + COMBINING OVERLAY = '‽'. '!' + '!' + COMBINING SIDE BY SIDE = '‼', > and so on. Similar in spirit to the Ideographic Description Characters, > but meant to actually tell the rendering system to combine stuff. > > 2015-05-28 17:25 GMT-03:00 Shervin Afshar <[email protected]>: > > Makes sense. But it doesn't seem like we need any new symbols. I think one >> of these should do for hard and extra-hard slopes: >> >> >> http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=%5B%3Aname%3D%2FDIAMOND%2F%3A%5D&g= >> >> Also, I'm not at all against making use of the actual [image: 🐇]we >> have. I will not hold my breath for a combining rabbit symbol though. >> >> ↪ Shervin >> >> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I saif it: there's no symbol in Europe for pistes, just colors. The >>> American "Bunny hill" maps to "green" pistes in Europe. >>> (the European piste colors are used also for drawing their ways on maps, >>> not just found in signages). >>> Piste signs are typically all the same shape in the same station (most >>> often discs) and the text on it (if present) shows the name or number of >>> the piste in the station, or just an arrow showing the direction to follow. >>> >>> 2015-05-28 22:11 GMT+02:00 Shervin Afshar <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> Well...to pick the nit, these shapes are rhombi; known colloquially as >>>> "diamonds". >>>> >>>> So what's the symbol for "bunny hill" in Europe? >>>> >>>> ↪ Shervin >>>> >>>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Well also these symbols, if you want (these are not really >>>>> "diamonds"), but the wordpress page forgets the "bunny hill". It starts >>>>> only with the green circle (in fact a black disc colored in green) which >>>>> maps to blue pistes in Europe. >>>>> >>>>> 2015-05-28 21:59 GMT+02:00 Shervin Afshar <[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>>> Single and double diamond? >>>>>> >>>>>> https://bbliss176.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/symbols2_jpg.jpg >>>>>> >>>>>> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Rc9ifOGLYg/TO5fF0XNTSI/AAAAAAAAIxE/RJPvVDD6gLM/s1600/caution-double-black-diamond.jpg >>>>>> >>>>>> http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/double-black-diamond-sign-legend-ski-slopes-map-40955860.jpg >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ↪ Shervin >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Is there a symbol that can represent the "Bunny hill" symbol used in >>>>>>> North America and some other American territories with mountains, to >>>>>>> designate the ski pistes open to novice skiers (those pistes are >>>>>>> signaled >>>>>>> with green signs in Europe). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm looking for the symbol itself, not the color, or the form of the >>>>>>> sign. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> For example blue pistes in Europe are designed with a green circle >>>>>>> in America, but we have a symbol for the circle; red pistes in Europe >>>>>>> are >>>>>>> signaled by a blue square in America, but we have a symbol for the >>>>>>> square; >>>>>>> black pistes in Europe are signaled by a black diamond in America, but >>>>>>> we >>>>>>> also have such "black" diamond in Unicode. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> But I can't find an equivalent to the American "Bunny hill" signal, >>>>>>> equivalent to green pistes in Europe (this is a problem for webpages >>>>>>> related to skiing: do we have to embed an image ?). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
