Re: Thai unalom symbol

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela_at_cs.tut.fi> wrote:

>
> Is there evidence of its use in text? This should be an essential question
> when discussing whether it should be defined as a Unicode character. Use as
> “logo” or, rather, as a standalone graphic symbol does not really mean it
> is used as a character.

It is a standalone graphic symbol with a religious and astrological
significance. There are a number such symbols in Unicode, for example:
U+2626-U+262A, and U+1F540-U+1F54A. My understanding is that such symbols
are eligible to be encoded in Unicode, though there are many factors to
considered:

http://www.unicode.org/pending/symbol-guidelines.html

James

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Received on Wed Jul 02 2014 - 02:49:38 CDT