<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The "Symbol, Other" category contains "Sign of the Horns" <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">🤘</span> which was one of the problems with the identifier/operator that kicked off these discussions.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f918/index.htm" class="">http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f918/index.htm</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So it would break some existing cases, e.g.:</div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #a9a9a9" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #a9a9a9" class=""> 1> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">let \U+1F913 = "nerd face"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(51, 187, 200); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">🤓: String = "nerd face"</span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f913/index.htm" class="">http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f913/index.htm</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On the other hand, there are some symbols in [:So:] that may be useful e.g. the APL Functional Symbol * series</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It might be easier to have just [:Sm:] to start with, and review the [:So:] subsequently (or have those addressed in UAX31).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alex<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Oct 2016, at 15:29, Jonathan S. Shapiro via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra">Quick poll as a sanity check on a possible alternative for operators:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">If we admitted [:Sm:] and [:So:] and the traditional ASCII operator characters, would that cover the things that people currently feel passionate about? That would almost certainly be compliant with UAX31 once it settles, and I <i class="">think</i> it covers all of the cases people have raised here.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Useful links if you want to check:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><blockquote style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">[:Sm:] <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/Sm/list.htm" target="_blank" class="">Symbol, Math</a></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">[:So:] <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/So/list.htm" target="_blank" class="">Symbol, Other</a></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Having looked it over, I'm concerned about including [:Sk:] in UAX31 operators, and I'm probably going to recommend in the UAX31 discussion that we shouldn't do so.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Jonathan</div></div>
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