Re: copyleft, math, religious symbols

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sat Dec 13 2008 - 12:17:54 CST


On 13 Dec 2008, at 13:01, David Melik wrote:

> Years ago a copyleft symbol was requested with evidence it would be
> used. I would use it too. I consider copyright generally immoral;
> I avoid anything biased towards it.

What, you don't buy books and magazines any more? Or go to the cinema?

> Logicians and mathematicians use backwards epsilon--omitted in
> unicode.

U+025C

> Most/all monotheisms, but few other theisms, have unicode symbols.
> Most such symbols were at about.com: http://web.archive.org/web/20071012203635/altreligion.about.com/library/glossary/blsymbols.htm
> , and many of those do not vary too much that they could go in
> unicode, but the site does not have all: the Pythagorean number
> symbols in addition to 1 (which is also the 'sun' symbol) might be
> good to add--and similarly, some polygons with more than 4 to 6 sides.

Some of these are near the bottom of my inbox, but other things take
precedent.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com



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