This has nothing to do with cars, but as we all use computers, I thought Forum members might find this useful.
Hunting for a particular symbol today that doesn't seem to be in any font installed on my laptop, I stumbled upon the Wikipedia Miscellaneous Symbols page:
"Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories, astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others."
These symbols can be cut-and-pasted into almost any (Unicode compliant) font in almost any application (under Linux anyway ).
A few examples:
♲ ☢ ☠ ☯ ⚠
I'm now going to find ⚠ useful in French Car Wiki articles.
Universal Symbols
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Universal Symbols
2011 Grand C4 Picasso VTR+ 1.6HDi in Kyanos Blue
1995 Xantia Estate SX 1.9TD in Vert Vega "The Green Lady" - after 11 years now owned by XanTom
1998 Xantia 2.1 VXD Estate in Mauritius Blue - R.I.P. (terminal tin-worm)
1995 Xantia Estate SX 1.9TD in Vert Vega "The Green Lady" - after 11 years now owned by XanTom
1998 Xantia 2.1 VXD Estate in Mauritius Blue - R.I.P. (terminal tin-worm)
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Ooops.
Previously:
2009 Honda Civic :(
C5, C5, Xantia, BX, GS, Visa.
R4, R11TXE, R14, R30TX - x 4920
Re: Universal Symbols
Oddly enough I meandered through the Unicode weird symbols just yesterday, there are certainly an abundance of them.
ö ※ ‡ † ⁂ ℵ ℈ ℉ ⅑ ⅗ ↝ ↡ ⅏ ∭ ∰ ≎ ≗ ⌨ ☎ ☭ ♕ ⛇ ✠ ❆ ⨊ ⨟ ⮙ ⸿ 】 ㊤
Millions of them but may not be viewable if you don't have Unicode installed - some I posted were rejected as unsupported. (some of the best ones, naturally)
ö ※ ‡ † ⁂ ℵ ℈ ℉ ⅑ ⅗ ↝ ↡ ⅏ ∭ ∰ ≎ ≗ ⌨ ☎ ☭ ♕ ⛇ ✠ ❆ ⨊ ⨟ ⮙ ⸿ 】 ㊤
Millions of them but may not be viewable if you don't have Unicode installed - some I posted were rejected as unsupported. (some of the best ones, naturally)
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Re: Universal Symbols
_I_ If find this one very handy >)
Alasdair
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Activa, the Moose Rider
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