RE: symbols for `born' and `died'

From: Handwerker, Reinhard (ISS Atlanta) (RHandwerker@iss.net)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 14:08:31 EST

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Correct, but this is actually the symbol being used in German typography where available. Otherwise "oo" is being used as this genealogical symbol.

See http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/BRG/neumark/unicode2.htm (sic!)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Everson [mailto:everson@evertype.com]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 13:07
To: Markus Scherer
Cc: unicode
Subject: Re: symbols for `born' and `died'

At 09:18 -0800 2003-02-24, Markus Scherer wrote:
>Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>... Similarly, the year of marriage is
>>depicted as two intertwined circles. How will this be represented in
>>Unicode? Are there characters for it?
>
>For the marriage symbol, U+221E INFINITY should work fine - and
>quite appropriately.

The infinity symbol is not two intelocked rings; it is a single loop.

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