#24 Astrological/Astronomical Symbols

[Anonymous]

In the Miscellaneous Symbols block, Capricorn at U2651 is wrongly drawn. I know the glyph the is the same in the DejaVu font and Wikipedia, but it isn't in any reputable source. Someone made a mistake and everyone copied.

I have attached a file containing two examples of a Capricorn glyph. The first, from the font Cardo, is what you were trying for. The second is a different glyph, widely used in Europe, which I would recommend (and it's quicker to draw!)

A number of astrological/astronomical symbols are missing:
U2609-260D Sun, north node, south node, conjunction, and opposition
U211E retrogradation

Still, thanks for putting the planets and signs of the zodiac in: so few fonts do,

[Nobody/Anonymous]

correct glyphs

[Philipp H. Poll]

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Thank you for your request (though it is more a bug report). Well, you might be right with your conclusion but I wonder why this wrong/uncommon shape got into Unicode (it is in fact in the PDFs you get from unicode.org). But on the other hand these were also not always reliable. I would need some more fact to decide the change. Perhaps you can supply some more material? Also on the other missing glyphs?

Thanks!

Philipp

[Kess Vargavind]

As I see it, the current glyph (Linux Libertine O, version 4.4.1) is okay, as it is a stylistic variant of anonymous’ first glyph in the attachment. I would propose to add the second glyph as a variant glyph though. As both are wide spread, and sometimes both used in the same document.

Apart from U+2609..U+260D and U+211E there is also U+26B3..26BC available in Unicode nowadays.

(Other astro symbols have been proposed for inclusal in Unicode, among others symbols for the Moon and the elements, all provisionally assigned to U+1F3xx. See the work on Amendment 8, if interested.)

[Kess Vargavind]

Correction to text put in parentheses in previous comment: The code points should be U+1Fxxx, as the characters are spread over several blocks.