Re: Awful Unicode character names (was Re: I-Ching Hexagrams)

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sharif.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 09 2003 - 11:38:37 EDT

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    On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:

    > > U+262B FARSI SYMBOL that actually appears on my passport (Michael, Ken,
    > > Asmus and Cathy saw it in Tokyo).
    > >
    > > Neither Farsi, nor a symbol. In real life, it is the official emblem of
    > > the goverment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
    >
    > You mean, it's a logo? It shouldn't have been considered a candidate for
    > encoding, then! :-)

    Exactly. The funny fact is that it has been in Unicode since 1.0...

    roozbeh

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