Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 17:33:40 -0300
Serious question: Has someone discussed a generic combining mechanism? I
mean, characters with an effect like "combine the last two". Say, '!' +
'?' + COMBINING OVERLAY = '‽'. '!' + '!' + COMBINING SIDE BY SIDE = '‼',
and so on. Similar in spirit to the Ideographic Description Characters,
but meant to actually tell the rendering system to combine stuff.
2015-05-28 17:25 GMT-03:00 Shervin Afshar <shervinafshar_at_gmail.com>:
> Makes sense. But it doesn't seem like we need any new symbols. I think one
> of these should do for hard and extra-hard slopes:
>
>
> http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=%5B%3Aname%3D%2FDIAMOND%2F%3A%5D&g=
>
> Also, I'm not at all against making use of the actual [image: 🐇]we have.
> I will not hold my breath for a combining rabbit symbol though.
>
> ↪ Shervin
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr>
> wrote:
>
>> I saif it: there's no symbol in Europe for pistes, just colors. The
>> American "Bunny hill" maps to "green" pistes in Europe.
>> (the European piste colors are used also for drawing their ways on maps,
>> not just found in signages).
>> Piste signs are typically all the same shape in the same station (most
>> often discs) and the text on it (if present) shows the name or number of
>> the piste in the station, or just an arrow showing the direction to follow.
>>
>> 2015-05-28 22:11 GMT+02:00 Shervin Afshar <shervinafshar_at_gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Well...to pick the nit, these shapes are rhombi; known colloquially as
>>> "diamonds".
>>>
>>> So what's the symbol for "bunny hill" in Europe?
>>>
>>> ↪ Shervin
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well also these symbols, if you want (these are not really "diamonds"),
>>>> but the wordpress page forgets the "bunny hill". It starts only with the
>>>> green circle (in fact a black disc colored in green) which maps to blue
>>>> pistes in Europe.
>>>>
>>>> 2015-05-28 21:59 GMT+02:00 Shervin Afshar <shervinafshar_at_gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> Single and double diamond?
>>>>>
>>>>> https://bbliss176.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/symbols2_jpg.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Rc9ifOGLYg/TO5fF0XNTSI/AAAAAAAAIxE/RJPvVDD6gLM/s1600/caution-double-black-diamond.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>> http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/double-black-diamond-sign-legend-ski-slopes-map-40955860.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ↪ Shervin
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a symbol that can represent the "Bunny hill" symbol used in
>>>>>> North America and some other American territories with mountains, to
>>>>>> designate the ski pistes open to novice skiers (those pistes are signaled
>>>>>> with green signs in Europe).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm looking for the symbol itself, not the color, or the form of the
>>>>>> sign.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For example blue pistes in Europe are designed with a green circle in
>>>>>> America, but we have a symbol for the circle; red pistes in Europe are
>>>>>> signaled by a blue square in America, but we have a symbol for the square;
>>>>>> black pistes in Europe are signaled by a black diamond in America, but we
>>>>>> also have such "black" diamond in Unicode.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I can't find an equivalent to the American "Bunny hill" signal,
>>>>>> equivalent to green pistes in Europe (this is a problem for webpages
>>>>>> related to skiing: do we have to embed an image ?).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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