From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 12:10:26 EST
At 08:52 -0800 2003-12-15, Elaine Keown wrote:
Mark said:
>I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I find myself thinking that the
>swastika, THE Nazi swastika, right-facing, tilted .....the whole
>deal, should be encoded
>
>This looks to me like the ideal place for an extended
>note in Unicode, not a code point.
>
>The note could describe the graphic differences
>between the existing code point and the Nazi version.
I am not certain that the existing code position is satisfactory for
non-CJK use. That is, Tibetan, Norse, Native American, Scouting use,
and so on. Those NEVER show Han brush-stroke shapes. I would like to
see some discussion about whether the properties those characters
have are suitable for use in other contexts.
>Some things are really too evil to facilitate even in
>a small way in a computer code.
The tilted Nazi swastika is a DIFFERENT character again.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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