Re: Saudi-Arabian Copyright sign

[Mark E. Shoulson]

JÃrg Knappen wrote:
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Jon Hanna wrote:
 

For a sample, see http://www.uni-mainz.de/~knappen/saudi.gif
     

Looks like {U+062D, U+20DD}
   

Yes, it does look like that. But it forms a separate entity, just like its
precedents COPYRIGHT SIGN or SOUND RECORDING COPYRIGHT SIGN or REGISTERED.
 

Were those given their own codepoints only because they had legacy 
encodings, though?

~mark