Re: Shamrock

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 12:39:00 EST


Michael,

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> At 17:14 +0100 2002-01-29, Otto Stolz wrote:
> >Mr. Everson said:
> >>At some stage I will be requesting a shamrock, as this is used in a
> >>number of dictionaries as a symbol denoting horticulture.
> >
> >What about U+2663?
>
> Where on earth did that annotation come from? A club is not a shamrock.

If you'll do the research, it's been there ever since Unicode 1.0,
so courtesy of Joe Becker. And this is the first anyone has
noticed.

--Ken



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