<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>The difference is that the circled Wz makes no difference between registered trademarks, unregistered trademarks and unregistered service marks.</div>
<div>It was only used by German dictionaries to avoid lawsuits, because generic terms commonly used in colloquial language were added to the dictionary, for example: Föhn (hair dryer), Pritt (glue stick), Tempo (tissues), Zewa (paper towels), Edding (marker pen), Post-it (sticky note) or Pampers (diapers).</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Sonntag, 15. September 2024 um 19:39 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Jonathan Rosenne via Unicode" <unicode@corp.unicode.org><br/>
<b>An:</b> "unicode@corp.unicode.org" <unicode@corp.unicode.org><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> RE: Position of the registered sign</div>
<div name="quoted-content">I propose that this is a matter for a style guide rather than for Unicode.<br/>
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Best Regards,<br/>
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Jonathan Rosenne<br/>
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From: Unicode <unicode-bounces@corp.unicode.org> On Behalf Of Andreas Prilop ???? via Unicode<br/>
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2024 7:22 PM<br/>
To: unicode@corp.unicode.org<br/>
Subject: Re: Position of the registered sign<br/>
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Ivan Panchenko wrote:<br/>
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> There is also the (German) circled Wz<br/>
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The circled Wz was only used in the old West German Duden.<br/>
Since re-unification, only circled R has been used in the unified Duden.<br/>
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> even though the symbol was apparently just a Duden idiosyncrasy<br/>
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I call it Deutschtümelei.<br/>
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