Re: Thai unalom symbol

2014-07-02 Thread Philippe Verdy
These guidelines are quite old (1999). But even with these, I'm convinced that the proposed symbol is OK for encoding, and that it should harmonize with glyphs for letters of the Thai script. The dictionary example is enough convincing for me, as it is hard to see that just as an illustration. It

Re: Thai unalom symbol

2014-07-02 Thread James Clark
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > > Is there evidence of its use in text? This should be an essential question > when discussing whether it should be defined as a Unicode character. Use as > “logo” or, rather, as a standalone graphic symbol does not really mean it > is use

Re: Thai unalom symbol

2014-07-02 Thread Christopher Fynn
On 02/07/2014, James Clark wrote: > The Royal Institute Thai Dictionary (the authoritative dictionary for the > Thai language) has an entry for unalom showing the symbol: > https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrdB2IsCYAAu4gP.jpg:large Are there other dictionaries and books which use this symbol in te

Re: Thai unalom symbol

2014-07-02 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2014-07-02 6:10, James Clark wrote: The unalom is widespread in Thailand. For example, the Thai Red Cross Society was originally founded as the Red Unalom Society, and its logo was a red Unalom combined with a cross. It forms the main component of the seal of Rama I (founder of the current Thai

Re: Thai unalom symbol

2014-07-01 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
I think this is a very good candidate for encoding. I would recommend writing a proposal for UTC and including the discussion about potential location. On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 8:10 PM, James Clark wrote: > One of the most pervasive religious symbols in traditional Thailand > culture is the "unal

Thai unalom symbol

2014-07-01 Thread James Clark
One of the most pervasive religious symbols in traditional Thailand culture is the "unalom" (อุณาโลม). I was wondering whether it might be appropriate to encode this in Unicode. Visually, it looks like KHOMUT U+0E58, rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise, and then reflected about its vertical axis