Re: wingdings to unicode conversion table ?

From: John Cowan (cowan@ccil.org)
Date: Fri Oct 29 1999 - 11:06:41 EDT

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On 29-Oct-99 Robert Brady wrote:
>Negative zero? What's that then? (Other than an anomaly caused by sign and
>magnitude representation of number?)

"Negative" in the context of Unicode dingbat numerals means "photographic
negative" (white digit glyph on black background) rather than "mathematical
negative".

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