L2/06-370

Source: Andreas Stoetzner
Date: 2006-11-02
Subject: Symbols

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Am 2. Nov 2006 um 02:30 schrieb Mark Davis:

There are a number of symbol sets that are in widespread use, but
currently can only be mapped to private use characters on input. The UTC should
consider whether or not it would be useful to encode these, or some subset. 

Ideographic and pictographic signs, vulgo "symbols",  of widespread usage ought
to be incorporated in the UCS. Therefore Dr Deborah Anderson and I recently
submitted a proposal dealing with orientational signage in public spaces.
ItԳ on the agenda:
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06323.htm 
document: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06272-public-signage.pdf

We ask the UTC to consider the urgend need of such signs in the communication
of our days. A space of about thousand (1000) characters, reserved for public
signage characters in future additions, might suffice to acommodate the most
important ch.s. We are talking about signs from Mobile displays up to airport
ground information signposting. All this has to be regarded as *one* matter,
because sign usage highly interferes in those fields.

Above all, We strongly recommend NOT to randomly encode some picked-up industry
fonts in use by any company. Remind "Zapf Dingbats". For the proposal
mentioned above we embarked on extensive collecting and research work in
order to destillate the TYPES from the TOKENS. That is how it should be
done for a global standard. We are able to further develop this and even to
manage cooperation among interested parties.

Andreas Stoetzner
SIGNA

www.signographie.de