Re: Cool Unicode and GNOME

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

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. :)
- Andreas