Comparing icons to box drawing characters is a non-starter. BDCs were included at the inception of Unicode because of the very encoding principles which were scuttled in order to encode the icons. ══════════════════════════ Any vendor is free to provide any glyph for any character regardless of propriety. For example, a swastika could be shown whenever the star of David is encoded. Any vendor providing a glyph which doesn't represent the meaning of the character is doing a disservice to its users. Only a fool would bring a squirt gun to a gun fight.
Best regards, James Kass
