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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by hypertexthero on Thursday June 23, 2016 @09:35AM (#11960721)
Agreed.

Although I had never worked with the Unicode Consortium, I [submitted a proposal][1] for an international symbol for an observer and it was eventually accepted.

[1]: http://hypertexthero.com/logbook/2015/01/international-symbo...

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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by leoc on Thursday June 23, 2016 @02:43PM (#11963412)
Ooh. One reason that's nice is because it adds one of the Smalltalk-72 symbols ( http://www.esug.org/data/HistoricalDocuments/Smalltalk72/Sma... , see p. 16) that was missing from Unicode.
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