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Unicode tends to resist adding symbols for specific people, companies, or brands. They'll say to put it in the private use area.
by rspeer 11y ago
Unicode tends to resist adding symbols for specific people, companies, or brands. They'll say to put it in the private use area.
- jloughry 11y agoYou're right, and IIRC this symbol has been proposed before unsuccessfully. But recent events have called to attention the backstory behind Prince's symbol---how it was created for use as a tool to modify an unfair contract, and how that successful hack opened up the recording industry for artists---many articles were printed about it at the time (most of them missing the point), a few books were written since, lots more articles were published about it last week, and likely more books about Prince are being written now. A code point is needed for Prince's symbol now. It's no longer merely pop culture but history and law.
- rspeer 11y agoEh. As much as we like Prince, his symbol is still a brand, and Unicode should not be a permanent memorial to brands. And here's why excluding people is nice: I'd say there's history involved in the fact that the North Korean encoding (KPS 9566) has codepoints for special decorative characters for writing "Kim Jong-Il", but Unicode isn't putting those in either.