Re: FW: where is the RECYCLE icon ?

From: Timothy Partridge (timpart@perdix.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 27 1999 - 15:27:01 EDT


Markus Kuhn recently said:

> The problem with making it a
>
> COMBINING RECYCLE ICON
>
> is exactly the same as with the existing
>
> U+20E3 COMBINING ENCLOSING KEYCAP
>
> There is no mechanism in Unicode to enclose more than a single
> character, i.e. you can't even produce a [ESC], [Ctrl], [AltGr] or
> [F4] keycap! Same for [PS] the recycle marker for polystyrene etc.
>
> I personally think, these more complex enclosing character, which
> usually have to change their size/shape based on the content should not
> be part of a character set such as Unicode. The word processor should
> offer a mechanism to include resizeable (i.e., parameterized) vector
> graphics into documents, which can also be used for arbitrary sized
> brackets, square roots, etc. All these are more graphical elements than
> characters (like underlining, table rules, figures, etc), especially due
> to their shape variability, and therefore clearly outside the scope of
> the Unicode standard (as the combing keycap probably also should have
> been).

U+0F3C and U+0F3D managed to get into Unicode.

Ancient Egyptian poses several similar problems as I'm sure you're aware.

   Tim

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