Unicode 7

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 02 May 2014 19:01:44 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

> 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?

I was thinking of copyright, trademark, registered mark, and similar. I 
think these are all of relevant characters:

py> for c in '©®℗™':
...     unicodedata.name(c)
...
'COPYRIGHT SIGN'
'REGISTERED SIGN'
'SOUND RECORDING COPYRIGHT'
'TRADE MARK SIGN'



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