On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > On 27-7-2010 3:06, John Haltiwanger wrote: > > I for one have always thought it would be interesting to develop a >> Unicode character that provides a symbol representing a neutral gender >> pronoun. Then, anyone reading can insert he/she or another option to >> their own taste. >> > > Interesting ... if we can come up with a nice symbol that we can agree on > it should be doable to get it included in quite some tex related fonts (the > group involved in maintaining them is not so large) ... and then we can set > a standard. After all, symbols like copyright and registered made it into > fonts and those are used (if at all) only a few times in documents and in > unseen places. > > Maybe arthur knows if there are scripts that have such a symbol. Of course > then there is the issue of how to pronounce it. >
U+26A7 MALE WITH STROKE AND MALE AND FEMALE SIGN ? -- luigi
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