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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">FYI, “variable font support” has a different meaning that will be more familiar to font developers than the meaning you had in mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Unicode <unicode-bounces@corp.unicode.org> on behalf of Markus Scherer via Unicode <unicode@corp.unicode.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 11:52</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Jukka K. Korpela <jukkakk@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:black">陶</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"PingFang TC",sans-serif;color:black">铂</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:black">玉</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">
<t.b.y.taoboyu@foxmail.com>, unicode <unicode@corp.unicode.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Assistance with REDO SYMBOL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 11:19</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">AM Jukka K. Korpela via Unicode <<a href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org">unicode@corp.unicode.org</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I would first ask why UNDO SYMBOL was included<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">It was encoded in 1998 in ISO 10646 Amendment 22 Keyboard Symbols, and then published in 1999 in Unicode 3.0.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The first documents about "keyboard symbols" appear in 1997:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1997/Register-1997.html">https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1997/Register-1997.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/Register-1998.html">https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1998/Register-1998.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2100.htm">https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2100.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Many of these documents were on paper and don't have online versions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In general, user interfaces do just fine with symbols as images, not needing encoded characters, and not wanting to rely on variable font support and glyph design.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">markus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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