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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by igravious on Thursday June 23, 2016 @04:04AM (#11959479)
How are traffic signs not in "running text" in books about the rules of the road and such like?
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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by coldtea on Thursday June 23, 2016 @06:41AM (#11959996)
Running text means INSIDE text (as in: "running along" with the other characters), not "used in a book as illustration".
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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by pc2g4d on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:35PM (#11963768)
It seems that every symbol imaginable will be used in running text eventually. At very least, for purposes of discussing the symbol itself!
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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by igravious on Thursday June 23, 2016 @12:31PM (#11962277)
Yes, of course. What was I thinking?
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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by Jaruzel on Thursday June 23, 2016 @04:07AM (#11959486)
I'm not sure about the 'running text' thing, but in my view Traffic Signs are not globally universal (yet), so you'd have to have regional variants which is impractical.
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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by coldtea on Thursday June 23, 2016 @06:42AM (#11959999)
Tons of the things in unicode are not "globally universal".
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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by GFK_of_xmaspast on Thursday June 23, 2016 @09:11AM (#11960578)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Road_Sign...
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