Re: Too narrowly defined: DIVISION SIGN & COLON

From: Andrew West <andrewcwest_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:33:45 +0100

On 10 July 2012 11:50, Leif Halvard Silli
<xn--mlform-iua_at_xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote:
>
> My candidate characters, this round, are:
>
> DIVISION SIGN (÷) as minus sign.
> COLON (:) as division sign.
> MIDDLE DOT (·) as multiplication symbol.

The last one is already encoded as U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR.

> What's next? Would some formal action be needed?

Yes. If you really want to propose them then you must submit a
proposal form to Unicode and/or WG2:

<http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html>

But I very much doubt that the committees would accept such characters
for encoding.

Andrew
Received on Tue Jul 10 2012 - 07:35:11 CDT

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