Alternate presentation for U+229C CIRCLED EQUALS?

[Shawn Steele]

I don’t really like the proposal at all.  Is there prior context that I’m missing?

They don’t want a “circled cc” character.  They want a Creative Commons license symbol.

They don’t want the equivalent of ⓒ, they want ©.

In plain text, the Creative Commons symbol has an explicit meaning, it’s not a random emoji.

It is unclear to me why this is being proposed as “circled characters” rather than “CC license symbols”.

My preference would be to see these encoded as “licensing symbols”.

If I was designing a font that included the CC licensing symbols and the circled math symbols, I might choose to match the CC symbols published by them EXACTLY.  However, the math symbols may have a slightly different style.  As ⓒ and © likely do.

Not to mention, if I have a © in my text, then it’s clearly intended as an abbreviation for “copyright” and not bullet c that I thought looked prettier in a circle.  That intent is not lost if I change fonts or whatever.

-Shawn

From: Unicode <unicode-bounces at unicode.org> On Behalf Of Markus Scherer via Unicode
Sent: Freitag, 5. Juni 2020 13:21
To: Mark E. Shoulson <mark at kli.org>
Cc: unicode at unicode.org
Subject: Re: Alternate presentation for U+229C CIRCLED EQUALS?

Actually, I should have looked at the proposal doc first: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17242r2-n4934r-creative-commons.pdf

... Their primary designs are exactly specified, while in current text forms may be used resembling the font design. ... In these examples, you see some variation in size, font, and placement, which is common for © symbol as well. ...

In other words, the glyphs for these symbols are not as fixed as you might think, and the use of ⊜ likely fits right in.

markus
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