Re: Uppercase ß is coming? (U+1E9E)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue May 08 2007 - 13:30:23 CDT

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    At 19:48 +0200 2007-05-08, Adam Twardoch wrote:
    >Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
    >>See previous reply. U+5350 isn't the Nazi swastika and doesn't look like it.
    >
    >Are you suggesting that Unicode should encode a German "r", a French
    >"r" and an English "r" because they typically don't look alike?

    He is not. But the fact is that the CJK characters are Han
    *borrowings* of the as-yet-unencoded *generic* religious symbols.
    (And those are different from the one used by the National
    Socialists.)

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    Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
    


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