Unicode 7

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano
>> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> > ... even *Americans* cannot represent all their common characters in
>> > ASCII, let alone specialised characters from mathematics, science,
>> > the printing industry, and law.
>>
>> Aside: What additional characters does law use that aren't in ASCII?
>> Section § and paragraph ¶ are used frequently, but you already
>> mentioned the printing industry. Are there other symbols?
>
> ASCII does not contain “©” (U+00A9 COPYRIGHT SIGN) nor “®” (U+00AE
> REGISTERED SIGN), for instance.

Heh! I forgot about those. U+00A9 in particular has gone so mainstream
that it's easy to think of it not as "I'm going to switch to my
'British English + Legal' dictionary now" and just as "This is a
critical part of the basic dictionary".

ChrisA