Am 29.05.2013 um 17:39 schrieb Leo Broukhis:
> In light of recent news about New York adopting a redesigned "handicapped" symbol
> …
>
> I'd like to ask: what is supposed to be the trigger condition for the UTC to consider changing the representative glyph of
> U+267F WHEELCHAIR SYMBOL ♿
Nice for N.Y., but for the UCS this is plain irrelevant. It’s a glyph variant, the semantics are just the same.
We encode characters, not glyphs.
Every character can get rendered in a myriad of different shapes. I guess you know that.
Regards,
Andreas Stötzner.
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