<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Jonathan S. Shapiro via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Quick poll as a sanity check on a possible alternative for operators:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></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>think</i> it covers all of the cases people have raised here.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Useful links if you want to check:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><blockquote style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">[:Sm:]  <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/Sm/list.htm" target="_blank">Symbol, Math</a></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">[:So:]   <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/So/list.htm" target="_blank">Symbol, Other</a></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This would define both ∞ and <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:&quot;open sans&quot;,&quot;helvetica neue&quot;,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">∅</span> as operators.</div><div> </div></div></div></div>