Re: [RFC] Discussion about chances of some characters to be added in Unicode

From: Steven R. Loomis <srl_at_icu-project.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 11:18:12 -0700

Hello!
The power symbol was already accepted, see http://unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html

Steven

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> El sept 7, 2015, a las 10:49 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <unicode_at_mva.name> escribió:
>
> Hello there!
>
> First of all, I'm sorry in advance, if my message's tone is not suitable for
> that mail list.
> Next, I'd like to discuss the chances of some characters to be added in
> Unicode at all.
> Most of all I interested about:
>
> 1) Full-height right and left isosceles triangles, positioned in the edges of
> the glyph space (so, when concatinated with space symbol on the background of
> same color of it's foreground, it looks integrally [ref: triangles_demo
> attach, although there is font rendering artefacts anyway, but, I hope, I
> clearly decribed the idea]).
> ref: symbols on the both edges on the attached "pwl" picture
>
> 2) "Forking" characher (not the math one, but VCS one).
> ref: in the middle on the attached "pwl" picture.
>
> 3) "Pause" (media) character (it is ones for "play/pause" and "play" in the
> unicode already, but it not for "pause"). There is "cheats" like using two
> vertical bars instead, usually it looks very ugly.
>
> 4) "Power" (like on power buttons on electronic devices)
>
> And, actually, imho, it also be nice to have all of symbols from the picture
> in the Unicode.
>
> P.S. I'd also ask about some more symbols, which is "missed" in everyday life
> and substituted with glyphicons on the web (but, you know, it is impossible to
> use glyphicons in CLI/console applications ☹), like: "cart", "exit", "barcode"
> (ideally, including also "qr" and "datamatrix" ones), and more, and more, but
> let's initially talk about that ones I talked initially ☺
>
> P.P.S.: and also it would be nice, I think, to have "icons" symbols of major
> OS brands (at least, Windows, MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD) to stop them (first two
> ones) of using Private set for that.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> mva
> <pwl.png>
> <triangles_demo.png>
Received on Mon Sep 07 2015 - 13:19:11 CDT

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