> > > Pentagrams? I haven't seen those... where are they?
> >
> > Hmmm... This is possibly an Italian word badly Anglicized. I just meant
> > "musical notation".
>
> Okay. I thought perhaps there were additions to "Misc Symbols" U+2600 ..
> U+267F or elsewhere that I had missed.
>
In Italian, "Pentagramma" is a musical term. Cf. "Pentagramma per voce
sola", etc.
But in English, a pentagram is an occult symbol-- a pentacle (5-pointed
star), usually inscribed inside a circle, and associated with witchcraft,
sorcery, and (by some) Satanism.
See http://www.exposingsatanism.org/signsymbols.htm for nice samples. ;-)
And no, the Unicode Standard hasn't encoded any pentagrams yet -- or
hexagrams or baphomets, for that matter.
--Ken
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