From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Sun Oct 19 2008 - 11:35:45 CDT
Leo Broukhis <leob at mailcom dot com> wrote:
> While perusing
> http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3514.pdf (Soccer Ball symbol
> proposal) I've noticed that on Fig. 4c (page 3) there is an Olympic
> rings symbol in the same context as the proposed - and accepted by the
> UTC - soccer ball symbol, making it at least as suitable for encoding,
> if not more, given its international recognition and appeal.
The Nike "swoosh" and Coca-Cola logos might have even greater
international recognition and appeal.
> I find it surprising that it was never* discussed on this list, unless
> it is assumed by everybody that an attempt to deal with the Olympic
> symbolic without the initiative or pre-approval by the IOC will cause
> more trouble than it's worth.
Historically the Unicode Standard has had a policy against logos of this
sort, Christian crosses and Stars of David notwithstanding. Commitment
to the policy has become less clear in recent years (IMHO) with entities
like a flag representing "Japanese self-defense forces" being accepted
as part of the ARIB Japanese TV symbols proposal (which also includes
several traffic signs, once a canonical example of what would *not* be
encoded).
However, it certainly seems likely that encoding the Olympic Rings
symbol as a character without the involvement of the IOC would be a huge
mistake.
-- Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ
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