On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 4:03 AM Mark Davis ☕️ <mark_at_macchiato.com> wrote:
> Essentially all of the game pieces that are in Unicode were added for
> compatibility with existing character sets. I'm guessing that there are
> hundreds to thousands of possible other symbols associated with games in
> one way or another, or that could be dug out of instruction manuals (eg,
> http://www.catan.com/files/downloads/catan_5th_ed_rules_eng_150303.pdf).
> (Many of those would be encumbered by copyright issues, but there are no
> doubt others that would not.)
>
I see two symbols used in text in that Catan manual; there's a white star
(U+2606) and a twelve-pointed red star (U+2739 or U+1F7D2?). I don't see
why books about games would be any different than any other book in this
manner; symbols used in running text should be encoded.
Received on Sun Oct 09 2016 - 23:33:52 CDT
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