Re: Have Characters that Depict Electronic Components been Discussed?

Bill Poser via Unicode <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.unicode.general
Message-ID <CACPRsRRBBNdMXfRQh7HrVLA3bxo-UBsvfYu8_f_sM3rR4OzuaQ@mail.gmail.com> 
Phonetic transcription (that is, IPA and IPA-like symbols) is not merely
"text-like" but routinely appears within ordinary text in publications on
linguistics and sometimes other fields such as anthropology. This contrasts
with things like symbols for electronic schematics.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 4:19 PM Rebecca Bettencourt via Unicode <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 3:02 PM Harriet Riddle via Unicode <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Novel pseudographic characters don't generally get added to Unicode, but
>> pseudographic characters from pre-Unicode code pages often do.
>>
>
> I wouldn't say often. This has happened maybe three or four times in
> Unicode's over-30-year history, with increasing resistance (pardon the pun)
> each time.
>
>
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