Re: Is this in Unicode?

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Ar 07:34 -0800 2000-10-12, scríobh Otto Stolz:

>> John's sample looks lots bigger than the itty bitty SQUARE LOZENGE
>> in the standard.
>
>Thus sayeth the Scripture:
> Character images shown in the code charts are not prescriptive.
> In actual fonts, considerable variations are to be expected.
>(chapter 14, verse 0)

Well, yes, but for technical symbols size often matters. Consider the three
circled bullets used by the Japanese (though those are punctuation marks).

I note that the size of the SQUARE LOZENGE in Unicode 1.0 is considerably
bigger and more recognizable than it is in Unicode 3.0.

I suppose the question is, what is the SQUARE LOZENGE for and why is it in
the UCS?

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