From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 03:02:40 CST
There is a real cyclone symbol used for weather. It would differ from
a generic spiral.
On 12 Jan 2009, at 06:44, Peter Constable wrote:
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
> On Behalf Of James Kass
>
>> http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4unicode/snapshot/
>> full.html#e-005
>> Have a look at the proposed cyclone symbol. Two carriers use
>> a simple spiral. The spiral is a symbol which has been used since
>> ancient times by various peoples to denote various concepts. The
>> spiral, if proposed as a plain-text character, would probably not
>> meet with quite so much objection. One of the carriers uses an
>> animated icon which is not a spiral symbol. Do you want your
>> spiral symbol converted to a picture of a cyclone? I don't.
>
> Then submit comments saying that you think these should not be
> unified.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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