<P>Male and female symbols appear to be in the unicode specification, which, so far as I can tell, contains every symbol known to man or woman of every colour, creed, or race.</P>
<P>One font I have looked at is Arial Unicode MS which is bundled with Microsoft Office 2000 and later, I believe, but any unicode font can be expected to have the same in the section called 'Miscellaneous Dingbats'. The Arial Unicode MS symbols are <SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN> (if these are readable here, that will say something - though not necessarily how one actually gets them onto an R graph!)</P>
<P>Best of luck - seems to me that your question has far broader applicability than just these two particular symbols.</P>
<P>Nick</P>
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