RE: Unicode copyleft inquiry

From: Paul Dempsey (paulde@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue May 09 2000 - 13:43:26 EDT


Although over-clever, and hard to find a font for, you could get the visual
appearance of the copyleft symbol using 042F 20DD.

042F;CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YA
20DD;COMBINING ENCLOSING CIRCLE

--- Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Dempsey [mailto:paulde@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 10:20 AM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: RE: Unicode copyleft inquiry
>
>
> Ah, yes, just as you might use U+24B8;CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL
> LETTER C for
> U+00A9;COPYRIGHT SIGN and U+24C7 ;CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R for
> U+00AE;REGISTERED SIGN.
>
> 24C1;CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L would seem a decent
> existing alternative
> character to use for a copyleft symbol. Otherwise, I say
> it's just another
> logo and not a character.
>
> --- Paul
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 7:49 AM
> > To: Paul Dempsey; unicode@unicode.org
> > Subject: Re: Unicode copyleft inquiry
> >
> >
> > Paul Dempsey wrote:
> >
> > > Consider that the Kosher/Pareve symbols are not encoded but are in
> > > widespread printed usage (though representable with an
> > enclosing circle
> > > combined with the appropriate letter).
> >
> > U+24C0 and U+24C5 respectively seem to encode them.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan
> > <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
> > Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, ||
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> > Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, ||
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> > (tr. Politzer)
> >
>



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