Inverted asterism

Asmus Freytag asmusf at ix.netcom.com
Sat Apr 1 03:01:10 CDT 2023


Which gives us another data point that someone thought there was a use 
case sufficient enough to provide a digital implementation.

A./

On 4/1/2023 12:44 AM, Harriet Riddle via Unicode wrote:
> Indeed, the only encoding I can think of right now (except PUA 
> schemes) which includes a turned asterism is the font-specific 
> encoding for the Bookshelf Symbol 7 font.
>
> --Har.
>
> Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
>> David Starner wrote:
>>
>>> There doesn't seem to be an inverted asterism in Unicode. Is there a
>>> good reason there's not?
>> Probably the same reason as always: it wasn’t in a known character 
>> set 30 years ago, and nobody has successfully proposed it since then.
>>
>> -- 
>> Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org
>>
>>
>
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