Kenneth Whistler <kenw at sybase dot com> wrote: > The key issue for symbols like the dominoes is not whether > they derive from pictorial representations of the game > tokens themselves (i.e., as pictures of the bones), but > rather whether there is a sufficiently established practice > of using such pictorial symbols effectively inline as > part of text, as opposed to merely in obvious graphics > showing entire 2-D layouts of domino positions. My own take > is that for some subset of the domino symbols proposed, the > evidence from the dominoes texts does pass that test.
I bet if someone took the trouble to look through enough children's literature and driver's testing materials, they could find at least one document that uses the STOP SIGN inline in a sentence, and that could be cited as sufficient evidence that it should be encoded. Everything I thought I knew about encoding symbols is wrong. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
