Hi James,
I appreciate the research, and the humor! 2 pis = peace, eh? (not on the unicode list! :-) but I like that especially since the issue of a name has been problematic. e to the i peace =1 circumference = peace times r, integral from zero to peace, period = peace over frequency, has a nice ring to it! Peace, Bob On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, James Kass wrote: > Couldn't find such a glyph, but there are some that are vaguely > similar: > > U+29B7 CIRCLED PARALLEL > U+238B BROKEN CIRCLE WITH NORTHWEST ARROW > U+229D CIRCLED DASH > > And, with a note of mild humor, possibly the PEACE SIGN at U+262E > might serve? It doesn't seem to be used much these days. With the > vagaries of English plurals, perhaps peace is the proper plural for pi... > > Best regards, > > James Kass, > > P.S. - With so-called "smart" fonts, which are really just OpenType fonts, > a string such as the digit two followed by the Greek pi could be replaced > in the display with a special glyph for 2pi or "newpi". This would not > alter the original file, it only impacts the display. The procedure is > called "glyph substitution" and support for OpenType is growing. > >
