Re: Spiral symbol

2019-02-19 Thread wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode
I seem to remember from reading a book many years ago, maybe around fifty years ago, something about one of the early chemists (Lavoisier?) having used two symbols, each a spiral, mirror images of each other, for two different things, maybe oxidation and reduction, in his manuscript but he had

Re: Spiral symbol

2019-02-18 Thread Michael Everson via Unicode
Emoji proposals aren’t notable for their uniform quality. There are guidelines, but essentially the subcommittee approves things they like and don’t approve things they don’t like. > On 18 Feb 2019, at 12:52, Andrés Sanhueza via Unicode > wrote: > > I understand the difference. My question wa

Re: Spiral symbol

2019-02-18 Thread Andrés Sanhueza via Unicode
I understand the difference. My question was why it was needed to have both spirals as different characters instead of a single one that can be either, as the proposal didn't specify an use case where there is a semantic difference between each one. El sáb., 16 feb. 2019 a las 11:26, Michael Ever

Re: Spiral symbol

2019-02-16 Thread Michael Everson via Unicode
> Question: Why both a right and left facing spiral are exactly need? Isn't a > single one (whose direction is just a glyph variant) enough? There was a > previous thread that also suggested these very symbols, but otherwise I have > found no evidence of the specific need for it. Clockwise and

Re: Spiral symbol

2019-02-15 Thread Andrés Sanhueza via Unicode
El mar., 22 ene. 2013 a las 19:11, Karl Pentzlin () escribió: > Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 um 01:11 schrieb Andrés Sanhueza: > > AS> I have wondered if it may be a good idea to make a proposal to an > AS> "spiral" character, basically because I believe is the only mayor > AS> symbol recurrently

Re: Spiral symbol

2013-01-30 Thread William_J_G Overington
On Tuesday 22 January 2013, Karl Pentzlin wrote: > If you have no access to the L2 document list, you can find the document at > http://www.pentzlin.com/ComicSymbolsV2.pdf . > > - Karl Thank you. The pdf made by me on 3 June 2011 with the file name locse010_art.pdf might be of interest as it

Re: Spiral symbol

2013-01-22 Thread Karl Pentzlin
Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 um 01:11 schrieb Andrés Sanhueza: AS> I have wondered if it may be a good idea to make a proposal to an AS> "spiral" character, basically because I believe is the only mayor AS> symbol recurrently used for represent "swearing" in comics that's AS> missing from Unicode.

Re: Spiral symbol

2013-01-22 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le 22/01/2013 01:11, Andrés Sanhueza a écrit : I have wondered if it may be a good idea to make a proposal to an "spiral" character, You might be interested by this 2011 thread on the mailing list, which was about the way do encode symbols : http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m

Re: Spiral symbol

2013-01-22 Thread Buck Golemon
These may be a suitable standins in the mean time :P http://shapecatcher.com/unicode/info/127845 http://shapecatcher.com/unicode/info/127744 On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Asmus Freytag wrote: > On 1/21/2013 4:11 PM, Andrés Sanhueza wrote: > >> Hello. >> I have wondered if it may be a good

Re: Spiral symbol

2013-01-21 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 1/21/2013 4:11 PM, Andrés Sanhueza wrote: Hello. I have wondered if it may be a good idea to make a proposal to an "spiral" character, basically because I believe is the only mayor symbol recurrently used for represent "swearing" in comics that's missing from Unicode. If it should come to