Philippe Verdy wrote:
Well it is still not so universal as there are wide ranges of glyphs
excluded for now to encoding as characters:
[...]
- country flags have been included but many regional emblems are
excluded (as they don't match any ISO 3166-1 code)
There are tentative plans (again) to provide a composite encoding for
flags corresponding to country subdivisions encoded in ISO 3166-2.
Unicode and 10646 have done well so far to avoid judging for themselves
which regions or groups deserve encoding over others, and sticking with
the decisions of ISO 3166/MA instead.
- common road signs/street signs and signs for indoor facilities &
services
I wouldn't doubt those are coming soon.
- various box drawing characters used in legacy terminals (notably in
Teletext and on older 8-bit systems): a few of them were added from
DOS/OEM codepages.
I thought that set had been pretty much completed by now. I wonder which
one are supposedly still missing.
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
