I'd need the upsidedown version of the Hammer and Pick symbol (inactive minimg), but I only can find the upwright ⚒ (active mininig, Unicode
2692) in my Mac's menue.
Reindl Wolfgang wrote 28.6.2017 klo 12.24:
I'd need the upsidedown version of the Hammer and Pick symbol
(inactive minimg), but I only can find the upwright ⚒ (active mininig,
Unicode 2692) in my Mac's menue.
Is there any reason to think that an upside-down hammer and pick symbol exists as a coded character, in Unicode?
If not, we can’t really expect
to find it in fonts.
"Inactive mining" is as common as a sign as "active mining" (upsidedown
vs. upwright 'Hammer and Pick').
"Active mining" I was able to find as a coded caracter so I Don't see
any reason why there should not be "inactive mining" as well.
If not, we can’t really expect
to find it in fonts.
At least I hope there is one.
Reindl Wolfgang wrote 29.6.2017:
"Inactive mining" is as common as a sign as "active mining"
(upsidedown vs. upwright 'Hammer and Pick').
I cannot recall ever seeing in, in a text or otherwise.
"Active mining" I was able to find as a coded caracter so I Don't see
any reason why there should not be "inactive mining" as well.
U+2692 isn’t really defined as “active mining”, but as HAMMER AND PICK
(its Unicode name), with the annotation (in the Unicode Standard)
“mining symbol, working day (in timetables)”.
http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf
I guess it’s the latter use that made the Unicode Consortium encode it
as a character. After all, Unicode is about text characters, not about graphic symbols used as standalone symbols e.g. in signs, logos, etc.
At least I hope there is one.
Anyone can design a glyph for an “inactive mining” symbol and include it in a font, but then it would have to be placed in a Private Use area
(or, worse, made to occupy a code position of a different symbol). But I don’t see much reason to do so, unless there is substantial evidence for needing it in texts.
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