From: Leo Broukhis (leob@mailcom.com)
Date: Sat Apr 02 2011 - 17:42:54 CST
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From: Leo Broukhis <leob@mailcom.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: Three modest proposals
To: Julian Bradfield <jcb+unicode@inf.ed.ac.uk>
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Julian Bradfield
<jcb+unicode@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 2011-04-02, Leo Broukhis <leob@mailcom.com> wrote:
>> This conflates two notions. Heraldic materials include metals,
>> enamels, and furs. All of them need hatchings to allow depiction of
>> сoats of arms in black and white print.
>
> Furs do not need hatchings, because furs are patterns of existing
> tinctures.
OK, but having the pattern element by itself as a character still
makes sense to facilitate plain-text references to fur elements.
Leo
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