- From: Ian Young <imy@wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 16:09:37 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Here are some guesses for the Unicode characters and ISO 8879 entities, taken from UnicodeData-1.1.4.txt (is there a more recent version, anyone?) and a Jan 1995(?) version of 8879. I make no claims about equivalence between the Unicode characters and the 8879 entites. I. (BTW, when I said avocation earlier, I clearly meant advocaation, er, advocacy) On 11 Jul 1996, Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> wrote: > As the maintainer of the terminfo databases, and co-maintainer of > ncurses, I'd like to urge that the special characters of the curses > ACS series also be included in the standard entities. This would > have major functional and portability benefits, enabling one of the > most widely used extension-glyph aets to be mapped directly to HTML. > > These characters are: > > upper left corner ACS_ULCORNER > lower left corner ACS_LLCORNER > upper right corner ACS_URCORNER > lower right corner ACS_LRCORNER > tee pointing right ACS_LTEE > tee pointing left ACS_RTEE > tee pointing up ACS_BTEE > tee pointing down ACS_TTEE > horizontal line ACS_HLINE > vertical line ACS_VLINE > large plus or crossover ACS_PLUS 2518;BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP AND LEFT;So;0;ON;;;;;N;FORMS LIGHT UP AND LEFT;;;; 2510;BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND LEFT;So;0;ON;;;;;N;FORMS LIGHT DOWN AND LEFT;;;; 2514;BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP AND RIGHT;So;0;ON;;;;;N;FORMS LIGHT UP AND RIGHT;;;; 250C;BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND RIGHT;So;0;ON;;;;;N;FORMS LIGHT DOWN AND RIGHT;;;; 251C;BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND RIGHT;So;0;ON;;;;;N;FORMS LIGHT VERTICAL AND RIGHT;;;; 2524;BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND LEFT;So;0;ON;;;;;N;FORMS LIGHT VERTICAL AND LEFT;;;; 2534;BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP AND HORIZONTAL;So;0;ON;;;;;N;FORMS LIGHT UP AND HORIZONTAL;;;; 252C;BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND HORIZONTAL;So;0;ON;;;;;N;FORMS LIGHT DOWN AND HORIZONTAL;;;; 2500;BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL;So;0;ON;;;;;N;FORMS LIGHT HORIZONTAL;;;; 2502;BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL;So;0;ON;;;;;N;FORMS LIGHT VERTICAL;;;; 253C;BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL;So;0;ON;;;;;N;FORMS LIGHT VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL;;;; <!ENTITY boxul SDATA "[boxul ]"--upper left quadrant--> <!ENTITY boxdl SDATA "[boxdl ]"--lower left quadrant--> <!ENTITY boxdr SDATA "[boxdr ]"--lower right quadrant--> <!ENTITY boxur SDATA "[boxur ]"--upper right quadrant--> <!ENTITY boxvr SDATA "[boxvr ]"--upper and lower right quadrants--> <!ENTITY boxvl SDATA "[boxvl ]"--upper and lower left quadrants--> <!ENTITY boxhu SDATA "[boxhu ]"--upper left and right quadrants--> <!ENTITY boxhd SDATA "[boxhd ]"--lower left and right quadrants--> <!ENTITY boxh SDATA "[boxh ]"--horizontal line --> <!ENTITY boxv SDATA "[boxv ]"--vertical line--> <!ENTITY boxvh SDATA "[boxvh ]"--all four quadrants--> > scan line 1 ACS_S1 > scan line 9 ACS_S9 What are these? > diamond ACS_DIAMOND Plenty of these in Unicode :-) You have a choice of: 22C4;DIAMOND OPERATOR;Sm;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; 2311;SQUARE LOZENGE;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; 233A;APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL QUAD DIAMOND;So;0;L;;;;;N;;;;; 25C6;BLACK DIAMOND;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; 25C7;WHITE DIAMOND;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; 25C8;WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; 25CA;LOZENGE;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; 2662;WHITE DIAMOND SUIT;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; 2666;BLACK DIAMOND SUIT;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; 2756;BLACK DIAMOND MINUS WHITE X;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; And in 8879: <!ENTITY diam SDATA "[diam ]"--/diamond B: open diamond--> <!ENTITY diams SDATA "[diams ]"--/diamondsuit =diamond suit symbol--> <!ENTITY loz SDATA "[loz ]"--/lozenge - lozenge or total mark--> <!ENTITY lozf SDATA "[lozf ]"--/blacklozenge - lozenge, filled--> > checker board (stipple) ACS_CKBOARD Oddly, all the chess pieces are in Unicode, but I can't find a board... > degree symbol ACS_DEGREE > plus/minus ACS_PLMINUS Both in HTML already: ° ± > bullet ACS_BULLET 2022;BULLET;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; <!ENTITY bull SDATA "[bull ]"--/bullet B: =round bullet, filled--> > arrow pointing left ACS_LARROW > arrow pointing right ACS_RARROW > arrow pointing down ACS_DARROW > arrow pointing up ACS_UARROW 2190;LEFTWARDS ARROW;So;0;ON;;;;;N;LEFT ARROW;;;; 2192;RIGHTWARDS ARROW;So;0;ON;;;;;N;RIGHT ARROW;;;; 2193;DOWNWARDS ARROW;So;0;ON;;;;;N;DOWN ARROW;;;; 2191;UPWARDS ARROW;So;0;ON;;;;;N;UP ARROW;;;; <!ENTITY larr SDATA "[larr ]"--/leftarrow /gets A: =leftward arrow--> <!ENTITY rarr SDATA "[rarr ]"--/rightarrow /to A: =rightward arrow--> <!ENTITY uarr SDATA "[uarr ]"--/uparrow A: =upward arrow--> <!ENTITY darr SDATA "[darr ]"--/downarrow A: =downward arrow--> > board of squares ACS_BOARD Unicode has this; any good? 25A6;SQUARE WITH ORTHOGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; > lantern symbol ACS_LANTERN What's this? > solid square block ACS_BLOCK 25A0;BLACK SQUARE;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; <!ENTITY squf SDATA "[squf ]"--/blacksquare =sq bullet, filled-->
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