On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:13:03AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > Then get the Unicode people sign off on treating your special special > characters as text, otherwise it's just an abuse of the system. If all > the people who want to do this get together and get a set of agreed upon > generic icon 'types' defined as Unicode code points - 'U+B540 is a > preferences icon', or what the heck ever - then fine. As long as people > are just making it up as they go along, they're 'embracing and > extending'. Well, it does seem that they're using the Private Use Areas, which are specfically reserved for basically this purpose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas The other thing -- getting unicode to include standard symbols -- is happening. That's why we have 💩 . Yay standards! -- Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
