ChristTrekker
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Anyone noticed that some glyphs from good ol' Cairo are used in the Unicode standard? I'd thought they'd looked familiar, but never connected the dots.
Of the "distinctive" glyphs (not just things like arrows where there's bound to be similarities), $ (pear, U+1F350), * (cactus, U+1F335), and ␡ (lemon, U+1F34B) characters all made it in, in identical or barely-modified forms. Pretty cool, eh?
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf
Many of these reference symbols (if not all) are the same as used in the Symbola font, which is used by the fileformat.info site for its server-generated example images.
Michael Everson, who is very active in Unicode community, had contacted me about Cairo at one point. He may have had input on the design of the reference glyphs, and used Cairo's representation since it's an example of those symbols already in use.
Of the "distinctive" glyphs (not just things like arrows where there's bound to be similarities), $ (pear, U+1F350), * (cactus, U+1F335), and ␡ (lemon, U+1F34B) characters all made it in, in identical or barely-modified forms. Pretty cool, eh?
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf
Many of these reference symbols (if not all) are the same as used in the Symbola font, which is used by the fileformat.info site for its server-generated example images.
Michael Everson, who is very active in Unicode community, had contacted me about Cairo at one point. He may have had input on the design of the reference glyphs, and used Cairo's representation since it's an example of those symbols already in use.
