From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2005 - 08:52:11 CST
Neil Harris wrote:
> Peter Kirk wrote:
>
>> On 15/02/2005 00:55, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ...
>>> The dingbats, obviously, are going to be an interesting battleground
>>> of domain buyers...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Those trying to use dingbats as a kind of corporate logo IDN should
>> be warned that glyphs are not standardised. I once (for fun) made a
>> font for a Mac with a rotten apple core glyph (complete with worm)
>> for the apple character! ;-)
>>
>>
> Having dingbats, character graphics, math characters and so on would
> be a disastrous thing to do.
Too late. There is already a ☻.com I believe (with a website), and
holding records for ✡.com and ☯.com and ☮.com and ☀.com and probably a
whole lot of others (and that's just single-symbol cases). 卐.com used
to point to the "swastika" entry at symbols.com; now it's apparently a
site dealing with various Eastern meanings of the symbol. Then again,
that isn't a "miscellaneous symbol"; at that codepoint it's an ordinary
CJK glyph.
What should be done with already-registered cases of symbols you would
blacklist?
~mark
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