Mark said:
I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I find myself thinking that the swastika, THE Nazi swastika, right-facing, tilted .....the whole deal, should be encoded
This looks to me like the ideal place for an extended
note in Unicode, not a code point.
The note could describe the graphic differences between the existing code point and the Nazi version.
I am not certain that the existing code position is satisfactory for non-CJK use. That is, Tibetan, Norse, Native American, Scouting use, and so on. Those NEVER show Han brush-stroke shapes. I would like to see some discussion about whether the properties those characters have are suitable for use in other contexts.
Some things are really too evil to facilitate even in a small way in a computer code.
The tilted Nazi swastika is a DIFFERENT character again. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
