RE: On the possibility of encoding webdings in Unicode (from Re: square bullets added to unicode.)

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2011 - 11:49:16 CST

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    From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of William_J_G Overington

    > If some or all of the webdings glyphs were to become encoded
    > into regular Unicode, would that only be possible with the explicit
    > intellectual property rights permission of Microsoft?

    Unicode encodes characters, not glyphs. Microsoft would not likely make IP claims over the concept of PARK SYMBOL. The use of a specific glyph is a different matter, but has no bearing on the encoding of an abstract character concept.

    > For example, would it be something like
    >
    > U+1XXXX MICROSOFT WEBDING GLYPH PARK
    >
    > or would it be something like
    >
    > U+1XXXX GRASS WITH TREE AND PATH
     
    Definitely something more like the latter. The former is a total non-starter.

    Peter

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