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Horizontal bar in dagger sign #30

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tinne opened this issue May 1, 2019 · 0 comments
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Horizontal bar in dagger sign #30

tinne opened this issue May 1, 2019 · 0 comments

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tinne commented May 1, 2019

The horizontal bar of the dagger sign 0x2020 is irritatingly below the vertical middle of the character, initially leading to the question whether it had been mixed up with the turned dagger 0x2e38, which has no representation in RaleWay.

Further analysis showed that the horizontal bar is aligned with the dashes chars and the horizontal line inside the lower case e, and that the double dagger 0x2021 has two bars vertically aligned around this “sensed vertical centre.”

The character design thus may lead to irritations in cultures where it is commonly used to indicate a person's death or extinction of a language or species.

I would thus suggest to introduce a triple dagger sign 0x2e4b with the current dagger graphics as basis for the center bar and derive new dagger and double dagger signs (and, optionally, turned dagger) from it by removing the bottom two or top two horizonal bars, respectively.

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