On Wed, 10 May 2000, Doug Ewell wrote:
> I confess that I had never seen nor heard of the copyleft symbol before
> (and I'm a programmer, about to deliver some open-source code!) but
> perhaps its absence from any encoding precludes wider use.
Precisely - the free software movement is historically reluctant to use
the "private use area" or "reserved" fields in standards for fear of
interoperabilty problems.
-- Robert
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