Re: Swastika to be banned by Microsoft?

From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Tue Dec 16 2003 - 11:08:42 EST

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    On 2003.12.15, 12:54, Tom Emerson <tree@basistech.com> wrote:

    >> Apparantly that S is the Futhark rune Sigel, encoded at U+16CB.
    >
    > Holocaust scholars wanting to encode German documents from the 1930s
    > and 1940s would want the double runic S encoded, since this was a
    > specific character found on type-writers of the era and saw regular
    > use.
    >
    > A proposal to encode this was shot down a few years ago, however.

    Even if it were encoded it could still have been made cannonically (or
    otherwise) decomposed to U+16CB U+16CB. Or to U+16CB U+034F U+16CB, to
    keep its "logoness".

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