From: Alexander Savenkov (savenkov@xmlhack.ru)
Date: Sun Dec 14 2003 - 10:31:21 EST
Hello Philippe,
2003-12-14T16:56:10Z Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
Snip...
> I find nothnig wrong in proposing a font which does not have these symbols
> for use in European scripts, where the occurence of the symbol is almost
> always associated to the Nazi's party, but I think it would be wrong to
> remove them from fonts designed for Asian markets that need it to represent
> their script, in a context where such association is not self-evident.
AFAIK the use of the symbol is forbidden in the names/logos
of organizations in Russia. It, unsurprisingly, was present here before,
e.g., it was printed on the Russian money in 1917 or so.
...snip...
> However there's still a problem with the ancient scandinavian usage:
I guess it is more appropriate to speak about the ancient Babylonian
or rather ancient Russian (Boreal) use. See, for instance, [1].
> it's
> not clear that the symbol would only fit in Asian fonts. However the symbols
> could be present in fonts made to represent old European scripts such as
> Runic, even if they have been used in translations to Roman-Latin or
> Church-Latin of these texts, with a Latin or Gothic script, or even in some
> other Uralic languages.
References: [1] ISBN 5-85141-016-7, p. 38.
Regards,
Alexander.
-- Alexander Savenkov http://www.xmlhack.ru/ savenkov@xmlhack.ru http://www.xmlhack.ru/authors/croll/
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