Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu dot org> wrote: > At least in Germany it is quite common to indicate the birth year with > a leading black five-pointed star and the death year with a leading > cross, resembling a dagger. Similarly, the year of marriage is > depicted as two intertwined circles. How will this be represented in > Unicode? Are there characters for it?
and also: > I've found a glyph in Jörg Knappen's TC fonts (text companion fonts > for his EC font family for TeX) called `guarani sign' for the currency > of Paraguay. It is a capital letter G with a vertical bar through the > whole glyph. I think the "five-pointed star" used to denote a birth year is just an asterisk, U+002A. If you need something that really looks like a five-pointed star, try U+2605. The dagger representing a death year is U+2020. Ken Whistler had a pertinent comment on this particular case: http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2002-m10/0447.html Remember that these are just symbols, so rather than requiring a new symbol with your particular semantics, it's OK to find something already encoded that "looks right" and use it (an exception to Jukka Korpela's otherwise-sound advice). I can't find the two intertwined circles or the G with vertical bar, so these *may* be candidates for encoding in a future version of Unicode if a proper proposal is written and accepted. (These e-mail discussions do not constitute a proposal, though they may be the foundation for one.) In the meantime, I'd just use "PYG" for the Paraguayan currency symbol. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
