Re: Optometry symbols proposal

From: philip chastney (philip_chastney@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2010 - 15:55:56 CST

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    whiskey in a cocktail glass?

    what is the world coming to?

    --- On Fri, 2/4/10, Leo Broukhis <leob@mailcom.com> wrote:

    From: Leo Broukhis <leob@mailcom.com>
    Subject: Re: Optometry symbols proposal
    To: "Doug Ewell" <doug@ewellic.org>
    Cc: unicode@unicode.org
    Date: Friday, 2 April, 2010, 4:55 AM

    On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org> wrote:
    >
    > This scenario could be extended to just about any symbol(s) imaginable.
    > Page 10 of the Colorado Driver Handbook shows the well-known graphic of
    > a glass of wine, a shot of whiskey, and a pilsner glass full of beer to
    > drive home the point that they contain the same amount of ethanol.  If
    > those were encoded as characters, the graphic could be dispensed with.

    U+1F377 WINE GLASS, approx. U+1F378 COCKTAIL GLASS, U+1F37A BEER MUG

    You saw it coming, haven't you? :-)

    Leo



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