Re: Power Symbol?

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Tom Gewecke wrote:

> Someone recently asked me if I knew where in Unicode to find the IEC
> 5009 symbol
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_symbol
>
> which seems to be on a lot of electronic equipment on/off buttons.

As far as I can see, it is not present in Unicode - at least not in the
block where one would expect to find it if it were there. Moreover, I would
not expect it to be included, since it is not a symbol that is used as a
character in text, but rather in buttons, labels, and diagrams.

Chapter 15.6 of the Unicode standard, p. 511, see
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch15.pdf
describes the technical symbols included and gives, at least between the
lines, some idea of what types of symbols might be encoded as _characters_.

Yucca

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