Re: Rich countries logos in Unicode [was: we need Nazi logos!]

From: Glen Perkins (Glen.Perkins@nativeguide.com)
Date: Thu Oct 07 1999 - 22:40:48 EDT


----- Original Message -----
From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jec@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
>
> Scott Horne <shorne@metaphasetech.com>:
>
> SH> Once again, the truth comes out: Japan gets its corporate and
> SH> governmental logos because it's a wealthy country with established
> SH> computer technology; others cannot have their logos because they
> SH> were too poor or weak
>
> I would like to formally request that the characters CIA LOGO DINGBAT,
> CLINTON FAMILY CREST and COMBINING FAST-FOOD HAMBURGER ABOVE be
> removed from the Unicode standard and ISO 10646.
>

I'm afraid they, along with COMBINING FAKE BEARD and COMBINING GLASSES AND
FAKE NOSE, have to remain in order to provide round-trip compatibility with
certain classified character sets upon which Unicode is actually based.

Glen Perkins



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