Re: symbols for `born' and `died'

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sun Feb 23 2003 - 13:55:51 EST

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At 19:20 +0100 2003-02-23, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>At least in Germany it is quite common to indicate the birth year with
>a leading black five-pointed star and the death year with a leading
>cross, resembling a dagger. Similarly, the year of marriage is
>depicted as two intertwined circles. How will this be represented in
>Unicode? Are there characters for it?

Yes for the first two. I don't know about the last.

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