Rotations, SignWriting, and Mr Potato Head
Ilya Zakharevich
nospam-abuse at ilyaz.org
Mon Nov 10 16:16:43 CST 2014
Oups, I forgot to update the subject, AND made a misprint
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 02:01:09PM -0800, I wrote:
> See, for example, the Mr Potato Head font
> http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2014-m09/0003.html
> ; using the same principles, one could encode most (all?) of the hand
> symbols as
> SignWriting FACE STARTER CHARACTER + upper/lower-script modifiers
> For example, hand with fingers 1,2 extended, 3,4 crossed, and 5 bent
> halfway could have been encoded as
> ☆¹²³ˣ⁴⁵ᶜ
Of course, it should have been
SignWriting HAND STARTER CHARACTER + upper/lower-script modifiers
^^^^
(but the same holds for SignWriting faces etc). And ☆ is supposed to
be just a placeholder glyph for the HAND STARTER.
Sorry,
Ilya
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