Re: Upside Down Fu character

From: Rick McGowan <rick_at_unicode.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:28:09 -0800

I would say to use higher level mark-up or images for this. I don't see
any reason to start down the road of encoding upside down Chinese
characters, or variation sequences, for such things. They are decorative
anomalies, not plain text.

     Rick

On 12/30/2011 7:34 AM, Andre Schappo wrote:
> The character 福 means happiness http://www.mdbg.net
> /chindict/chindict.php?page=chardict&cdcanoce=0&cdqchi=福
> <http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=chardict&cdcanoce=0&cdqchi=%E7%A6%8F>
>
>
> Unicode entry: U+798F CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-798F
>
> It is customary to use an upside-down version of 福 during the Spring
> Festival http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_character
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