Re: Mystery of Circled S solved

From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Tue Aug 24 2004 - 17:52:18 CDT

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    From: "Jörg Knappen" <knappen@uni-mainz.de>
    > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote:
    >
    >
    > > > It is indentified as a letterlike symbol still missing from UNicode:
    > > > GESCHUETZTE SORTE
    > > > looks like: S in a circle
    > >
    > > U+0053 U+20DD looks very good when set in Code2000.
    >
    > But it isn't GESCHUETZTE SORTE in its specific meaning. Neither is
    > U+24C8. The difference is the same as the difference between
    > U+0052 U+20DD or U+24C7 from U+00AE REGISTERED SIGN. GESCHUETZTE SORTE
    > belongs to a class of special characters with a legal meaning (like
    > COPYRIGHT SIGN and SOUND RECORDING COPYRIGHT SIGN, two name two others of
    > this class).

    A similar character is the PRODUCER SIGN used on music medias (a circled P).

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