On 25 Mar 2012, at 19:17, Doug Ewell wrote: > Mark Davis ā replied to Jeremie Hornus: > >>> More seriously on the "symbols field": >>> Unicode could include traditional ancient symbols (with real >>> meanings) such as the Akan's Adinkra displayed in Saki Mafundikwa's >>> _Afrikan Alphabets_ book published at Mark Batty Publisher (ISBN >>> 0-9724240-6-7). >>> Perhaps there is already a draft proposal on that matter? >> >> You can check on the pipeline of characters at >> http://unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html, with some pointers to how to >> make proposals, if you are interested.... > > Iām assuming the goal here is to propose symbols that have traditionally been > used as part of inline text, not just any pictorial symbol.
Yes, the issue is similar to the one of the Mayan/Aztec languages and their hieroglyphs/pictograms/symbols before spanish orthography took over their writing with latin letters. J.
