Re: Is this the oldest d20 on Earth?

2014-09-20 Thread Rebecca Bettencourt
According to this post, the 20 sides are the first 20 letters of the Greek/Coptic alphabet, with a stylized form of alpha (where the crossbar is a V) and lunate sigma (which looks like C instead of Σ). http://www.artisandice.com/blog/ptolemaic-d20/ Lunate sigma is U+03F9 (uppercase) and U+03F2 (l

Re: Is this the oldest d20 on Earth?

2014-09-20 Thread Richard Cook
On Sep 20, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Jonathan Coxhead wrote: > > Here's an icosahedral dice from the Ptolemaic period: > > http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/551070 > > I find myself idly wondering whether the identities of the characters are all > known and encoded ...

Is this the oldest d20 on Earth?

2014-09-20 Thread Jonathan Coxhead
Here's an icosahedral dice from the Ptolemaic period: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/551070 I find myself idly wondering whether the identities of the characters are all known and encoded ... Cheers —Jonathan ___ U

Re: What happened to...?

2014-09-20 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
Thanks; I probably should have looked at later meetings too. ~mark On 09/19/2014 07:26 PM, Rick McGowan wrote: Hi Mark, This document ended up being delayed all the way into meeting #133, so the resolution is in those minutes: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12343.htm#133-A62 Regards,

Re: What happened to...?

2014-09-20 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
I agree that we should minute at least some reason for declining. It need only be a sentence or two. (BTW I wasn't at that discussion.) {phone} On Sep 20, 2014 3:17 AM, "Asmus Freytag" wrote: > On 9/19/2014 5:38 PM, Whistler, Ken wrote: > >> Michael, >> >> "Declines to take action” is pretty t

Re: What happened to...?

2014-09-20 Thread Michael Everson
On 20 Sep 2014, at 01:38, Whistler, Ken wrote: > Michael, > >> "Declines to take action” is pretty thin. > > A proposal which is declined by the UTC doesn't automatically create an > obligation to write an extended dissertation explaining the rationale and > putting that rationale on record.