RE: meteorological symbols

From: Eric Scace (eric@scace.org)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 09:24:26 EST

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       I will do some digging for the proper authoritative sources. These glyphs are used so frequently that meteorologists never
    bother looking them up, once they have been learned (which is done in first year study at university).

    -- Eric Scace

    -----Original Message-----
    From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
    Behalf Of Christopher John Fynn
    Sent: 2003 December 3 Wednesday 23:14
    To: Unicode List
    Subject: Re: meteorological symbols

    Eric Scace" <eric@scace.org> wrote:

    > The set of symbols in use has been standardized for many decades
    > by the World Meteorological Organization.

    Anywhere this standard can be found on line? or in an official publication? 

    --
Christopher J. Fynn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Scace" <eric@scace.org>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:33 AM
Subject: meteorological symbols
> Hello --
>
>    I am at the start of a font development project.  The target font will
include some meteorological symbols which were in
> extensive use in the mid-20th century on teletypewriter networks used to
exchange meteorological data around the world.  But there
> is a stumbling block in the assignment of certain glyphs: no apparent Unicode
allocation.
>
>    At the risk of re-triggering yet another "what is a character"
discussion... Have meteorological symbols been considered for
> incorporation in Unicode?  (A search of the archives did not turn up any
discussion.)
>
>    The set of symbols in use has been standardized for many decades by the
World Meteorological Organization.  The total set is
> around 150 characters.  However, some are already available in Unicode in
various locations (arrows, simple thunderstorm symbol,
> lightning, and other glyphs which can be re-applied in their meteorological
context such as various kinds of fog)... and some others
> can be decomposed in a manner similar to basic letters and diacritical marks.
>
>    Thanks for your kind assistance.
>
> -- Eric Scace
>
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