Re: Cool Unicode and GNOME

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

Στις 12/Ιούν/2005, ημέρα Κυριακή και ώρα 23:51, ο/η Andreas Nilsson
έγραψε:
> Simos Xenitellis wrote:
>
> > What to do then?
> > * Start using these and tell the world that, "Oh, I use GNOME and this 
> > is how I get them".
> > * Make sure the freefont package is included in your distro, as it 
> > covers quite a few of those interesting characters.
> > * More free fonts with better coverage of Unicode would be nice.
> >
> > A sample:
> >
> > *☰☃☂☣★☰
> > *
> > ☎ me please so we can go out to the ☼ and play ♞ (that's just
> > chess☺). I am ♑ and I love ☮.
> >
> > Simos/Σίμος
>
> Actually. the swedish post office has a campain right now where you can 
> put stickers with little symbols between the words just like this and 
> it's so cool. Putting sentences like this in, for example the Gaim and 
> Gnomechat screenshots would defenetly attract some of the 14 year old 
> girls that Seth talked about in his Guadec-speech to Gnome. :)

Thanks Andreas, Luis for the replies.

As I see it now, what can be done is to for those who find it
interesting, to use it in the GAIM username, add to their blog entries
and so on. If it's good, it will be caught up.

There are several nice things you can do with IT, that simply not many
people have realised they can do.

Actually, for the purposes of an experiment, could someone who has their
blog on pgo make an entry and add some interesting Unicode characters in
the entry title?
For the experiment to be trustworthy, do not mention anything about the
characters, just use them, then wait if there is interest.

For example,
"XYZ restaurant verdict: ★★★★★"
"★★★ Announcing xyz 1.2 ★★★"

Other characters (for copy/paste) are
✂✔✐✤✹✿

Or use gucharmap.

Simos