I've always been a bit partial to them and found it odd that they are intentionally not included in Unicode. Especially the novel concepts like the repeats.
-----Original Message----- From: Unicode [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Wordingham Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Tag characters On Wed, 20 May 2015 17:15:28 -0700 "Asmus Freytag (t)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Have there been any discussions of the flag alphabet? (Signal flags). > It seems to me that when schemes for representing sets of flags are > discussed, it would be useful to keep open the ability to use the same > scheme for signal flags -- perhaps with a different base character to > avoid collisions in the letter codes. If these are worthy of coding, I think the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics would be a better model - encode the form, not the semantic. Braille is another precedent. Richard.
