Re: [OT] "Www" as an internet riddle

From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon Nov 17 2003 - 18:26:42 EST

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    From: "Kenneth Whistler" <kenw@sybase.com>
    > > «That's good for symbolizing e-mail», I said, «but that joint supports
    > > no POP3/SMTP access, only webbrowsing. «You should go for a "www"
    > > instead...» «Well, I want it as one character only. Any ideas, dummy?»
    > >
    > > This dummy then produced U+02AC to the startled friend, and hurried in
    > > search a sadly inexisting COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER W. Settled for
    > > U+0651, just for the sake of it...
    >
    > Only a matter of time before someone asks for a precomposed:
    >
    > U+XXXX AUDIBLE LIP SMACK WITH SHADDA ABOVE

    For such a crazy ISP, the best symbol for it should just be:
    U+0024 '$' DOLLAR SYMBOL, or even better:
    U+FF04 '$' FULLWIDTH DOLLAR SYMBOL, if not just:
    U+FF69 'L' SMALL DOLLAR SYMBOL

    Or may be (who knows?):
    U+00A3 '£' POUND SYMBOL
    U+00A4 '¤' CURRENCY SYMBOL
    U+00A5 '¥' YEN SYMBOL

    And why not:
    U+20A9 '₩' WON SYMBOL (broken web...)
    U+20A5 '₥' MILLIME SYMBOL (broken mail...)
    U+20AB '₫' DONG SYMBOL (broken data...)
    U+20A6 '₦' NAIRA SYMBOL (you have NO mail waiting...)

    :-))

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