On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 4:03 AM Mark Davis ☕️ <m...@macchiato.com> wrote:
> Essentially all of the game pieces that are in Unicode were added for > compatibility with existing character sets. I'm guessing that there are > hundreds to thousands of possible other symbols associated with games in > one way or another, or that could be dug out of instruction manuals (eg, > http://www.catan.com/files/downloads/catan_5th_ed_rules_eng_150303.pdf). > (Many of those would be encumbered by copyright issues, but there are no > doubt others that would not.) > I see two symbols used in text in that Catan manual; there's a white star (U+2606) and a twelve-pointed red star (U+2739 or U+1F7D2?). I don't see why books about games would be any different than any other book in this manner; symbols used in running text should be encoded.