> [Original Message] > From: Doug Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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.
There are several characters in the Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols block as well as various arrows that are useful as building blocks for various road signs, so it wouldn't be the worst idea in the world. Altho rather than STOP SIGN, YIELD SIGN, and COMBINING WARNING SIGN, it would probably be better to encode BLACK OCTAGON, DOWNWARD POINTING ROUNDED TRIANGLE, and COMBINING ENCLOSING UPWARD POINTING ROUNDED TRIANGLE, if there was a need. Some of the same problems that afflict playing cards, in particular that the representation of a particular symbol is language and culture dependent affect road signs. However, this problem does not afflict either dominoes or draughts. Those symbols are language independent and thus have fewer problems as potential Unicode symbol characters
