Aw: Re: Pictographic zodiacal symbols
Marius Spix via Unicode <[email protected]>
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All these zodiacs can be represented with existing characters: 🐏 🐂 👫 🦀 🦁 👩 ⚖️ 🦂 🏹 🐐 🧜♂️ 🐟 / 🎏 Gesendet: Montag, 12. August 2024 um 02:59 Uhr Von: "Asmus Freytag via Unicode" <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: Pictographic zodiacal symbols There's arguably a distinction between symbols and pictographs, even if both signify the same concept. This is different from the case two different sets of pictographs or two different sets of symbolic notation. Although, even in those cases it is useful to consider the question: can one of them be substituted for the other with the reader experiencing the choice as stylistic? A./ On 8/10/2024 3:48 PM, Leo Broukhis via Unicode wrote: What's the semantic difference between the two sets? Without it, it's just different fonts. Leo On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 2:00 AM A. Stötzner via Unicode <[email protected] > wrote: Besides the simple typographic set of 12 zodiac characters there is a tradition of another set, consisting of pictographic symbols of the 12 zodiac signs, which also play a role in typography (~ 16th c. onwards) Has this set been proposed for encoding at any time in the past? greetings, Andreas Stötzner __________________________________________________________________ Andreas Stötzner Gestaltung · Archivpflege · Fontentwicklung Klauflügelweg 21 · 88400 Biberach a.d. Riß 0176-86823396 · [email protected] [email protected] · Andronfonts.com
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