Re: Too narrowly defined: DIVISION SIGN & COLON

From: Asmus Freytag <asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:49:12 -0700

On 7/10/2012 5:33 AM, Andrew West wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Encoding of new characters in not required to address the issue.
A./
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