Reference glyphs of musical accidentals quarter sharp and quarter flat

[Hans Åberg]

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> On Jan 3, 2024, at 19:13, Garth Wallace via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:
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> Also, the semantics of the half-sharp, reversed flat, and slashed flat gets a little more complicated when you take Turkishmusic into account. Probably best to encode new characters (and a proposal was submitted fairly recently) even if it means leaving some detritus in the Standard. It wouldn’t be the first time.
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> On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 9:17 AM Doug Ewell via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:
> I personally support Kirk Miller's proposal to add the more commonly used symbols as separate characters, rather than complicating the encoding by adding variation selectors to change the glyph to something quite different.
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> We don't always realize it, but ordinary users generally don't know anything about variation selectors.
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> —Doug
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