Re: Re: Adding half-star to Unicode?

From: Garth Wallace <gwalla_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:55:45 -0700

But would anarchists even want their symbol to be encoded?

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 7:04 AM, "Jörg Knappen" <jknappen_at_web.de> wrote:

> Talking about fancy five stars, besides the vertically split ones there is
> the "Anarchist star" (a symbol for anarcho-syndicalism)
> with a diagonal split in a upper left red half and a lower left black
> half. Since there are political and ideological symbols encoded
> in UNicode, maybe this one is worth encoding as well (probably twice, once
> as a black and white plain symbol and once as a colourful Emoji).
>
> See here:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Anarcho-Syndicalism#/media/File:Anarchist_star.svg
>
> FIVE PIONTED STAR WITH BLACK LOWER RIGHT HALF = anarchist star
> ANARCHIST STAR EMOJI
>
> --Jörg Knappen
>
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 24. Juni 2016 um 14:12 Uhr
> *Von:* "Frédéric Grosshans" <frederic.grosshans_at_gmail.com>
> *An:* unicode_at_unicode.org
> *Betreff:* Re: Adding half-star to Unicode?
> Le 24/06/2016 00:37, Leo Broukhis a écrit :
> > For a previous discussion on the topic, please see
> > the thread "Missing geometric shapes" around 11/12/12
> The thread starts here :
> http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2012-m11/0008.html
>
> It contains an example of half-filled star used in RTL (Hebrew) context,
> in an advertisement in Haaretz here
> http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2012-m11/0024.html
>
>
>
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