> On Wed, 6/8/16, Garth Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 7:26 AM, David Faulks >> <[email protected]> wrote: (cut text) >> The Zodiac sign Capricorn has an alternate >> Glyph/Symbol (see below): (cut text) >> Since every font I have checked on my computer, >> uses a glyph close to the Unicode charts (if they >> have Zodiac symbols at all), I am thinking that it might >> be best to propose this as a separate character. >> >> Is this a good idea? > I just saw this alternate glyph pop up on a webpage, not > as an image, so I checked through the fonts on my > system. It's apparently used for U+2651 by the GNU > FreeFont family, GNU Unifont, and Chrysanthi Unicode. > Chrysanthi does some odd things in the Miscellaneous > Symbols range but the others are pretty normal. It may > just be a version of the standard symbol with the loop > enlarged and the left-hand side reduced to a small wave > or hook.
Thank you for this information. Capricorn is pretty common, and while I feel that completely different symbols for the same thing should still be different characters, I was uncertain in this case. I might try to propose it as a standard variation, though. David Faulks
