Re: Re: What's with the Rx symbol?

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tedd wrote:

> At 1:30 PM +0200 8/30/08, Per Jessen wrote:
>>  I finally managed to get to Tedds site
> 
> It's not that hard, try: http://rx-2.com
> 

Yeah, but that _only_ takes me to rx-2.com, nothing else? 

> And you said:
> 
>>Now, I haven't worked in pharmaceuticals, but I've worked in most
>>European countries.  So it's probably just me, but I've _never_ come
>>across the Rx symbol before.  I don't think it's as global as you
>>think.
> 
> Okay, please permit me some literary license -- after all, this is my
> retirement plan.  :-)
> 
> My source for my claim is simply and directly taken from Unicode --
> that's THE authority on global glyphs.

Well, I guess - sort of.  Just because something is Unicode does not
make it global, in my opinion.
In fact, I would argue that most of Unicode is _not_ global at all. 
Think about the alphabets such as: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bopomofo,
Cyrillic, Devanagari, Georgian, Greek and Coptic, Gujarati, Gurmukhi,
Hangul, Hebrew, Hiragana, Kannada, Katakana, Lao, Latin, Malayalam,
Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, and Tibetan - and they were all in the
first version of Unicode.  (I'm quoting from wikipedia).

> What do you think about the yin-yang symbol?
> http://xn--w4h.com

That one is probably several orders of magnitude more global than the
Rx, but typing them remains a problem for both :-)

I was actualy very surprised to see that such arbitrary symbols have
been opened for use with e.g. .com.  The national registrars around
Europe have quite a limited set of special chars that can be used -
AFAIK none of them include the special symbols that you've registered. 

Good luck with your retirement plan :-)


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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