"Bunny hill" symbol, used in America for signaling ski pistes for novices

[Philippe Verdy]

Some documentations also suggest that the two diamonds are not stacked one
above the other, but horizontally. It's a good point for using only one
symbol, encoding it twice in plain-text if needed.

2015-05-28 22:15 GMT+02:00 Jim Melton <jim.melton at oracle.com>:

>  I no longer ski, but I did so for many years, mostly (but not
> exclusively) in the western United States.  I never encountered, at any USA
> ski hill/mountain/resort, a special symbol for "bunny hills", which are
> typically represented by the green circle meaning "beginner".  That's
> anecdotal evidence at best, but my observations cover numerous skiing
> sites.  I have encountered such a symbol in Europe and in New Zealand, but
> not in the USA.  (I have not had the pleasure of skiing in Canada and am
> thus unable to speak about ski areas in that country.)
>
> The double black diamond would appear to be a unique symbol worthy of
> encoding, simply because the only valid typographical representation (in
> the USA) is two single black diamonds stacked one above the other and
> touching at the points.
>
> Hope this helps,
>    Jim
>
> On 5/28/2015 2:04 PM, Shawn Steele wrote:
>
>  So is double black diamond a separate symbol?  Or just two of the black
> diamond?
>
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>
> And Blue-Black?
>
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>
> I’m drawing a blank on a specific bunny sign, in my experience those are
> usually just green.
>
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>
> Aren’t there a lot of cartography symbols for various systems that aren’t
> present in Unicode?
>
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>
> *From:* Unicode [mailto:unicode-bounces at unicode.org
> <unicode-bounces at unicode.org>] *On Behalf Of *Philippe Verdy
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 28, 2015 12:47 PM
> *To:* unicode Unicode Discussion
> *Subject:* "Bunny hill" symbol, used in America for signaling ski pistes
> for novices
>
>
>
> Is there a symbol that can represent the "Bunny hill" symbol used in North
> America and some other American territories with mountains, to designate
> the ski pistes open to novice skiers (those pistes are signaled with green
> signs in Europe).
>
>
>
> I'm looking for the symbol itself, not the color, or the form of the sign.
>
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> For example blue pistes in Europe are designed with a green circle in
> America, but we have a symbol for the circle; red pistes in Europe are
> signaled by a blue square in America, but we have a symbol for the square;
> black pistes in Europe are signaled by a black diamond in America, but we
> also have such "black" diamond in Unicode.
>
>
>
> But I can't find an equivalent to the American "Bunny hill" signal,
> equivalent to green pistes in Europe (this is a problem for webpages
> related to skiing: do we have to embed an image ?).
>
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