At 16:39 -0700 2002-05-18, Doug Ewell wrote: >I thought these cases were more like the stop sign than the >square root sign, but I guess I didn't understand the policy correctly.
I wouldn't overestimate the comprehensiveness of any such policy if I were you. Symbols don't fit neatly into categories. >Anyway, as long as such characters are deemed appropriate for Unicode, I >was wondering recently about the "lock" and "unlock" symbols, >represented by a closed and open padlock respectively. These are often >used, sometimes in text and sometimes on Web sites, to refer to secured >or unsecured resources. They do not seem to be part of any active >proposal. Is it worth putting one together? I like 'em..... :-) -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
