Re: Adding half-star to Unicode?

2016-06-24 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
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 (

Aw: Re: Adding half-star to Unicode?

2016-06-24 Thread Jörg Knappen
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 w

Emoji and Annotation data

2016-06-24 Thread Takao Fujiwara
Hi, I'm working on IBus - the input method framework for Linux. I parse http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html and create a dictionary between the annotations and the Emoji characters. Since the file size is large and it's often updated, I'm thinking how to maintain the file. I copied

Re: Re: Adding half-star to Unicode?

2016-06-24 Thread Garth Wallace
But would anarchists even want their symbol to be encoded? On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 7:04 AM, "Jörg Knappen" 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 hal

Re: Emoji and Annotation data

2016-06-24 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
You should never be scraping *any* Unicode HTML files. They are not made for that, and there is no guarantee of stability. The emoji files are built from data which is described in http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/ (plus CLDR annotations and collation) Mark On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Ta

Re: Re: Adding half-star to Unicode?

2016-06-24 Thread Philippe Verdy
My bet is that they'll prefer using whatever code they want, hacking fonts as necessary to overtake another political symbol when they'll want. They could do that easily with Webfonts today (by designing a tiny webfont with just one glyph mapped to any code point, including some ASCII symbol such a

Re: Re: Adding half-star to Unicode?

2016-06-24 Thread Leonardo Boiko
> My bet is that they'll prefer using whatever code they want, hacking fonts as necessary to overtake another political symbol when they'll want. They could liberate a code point from the private use area. 2016-06-24 14:10 GMT-03:00 Philippe Verdy : > My bet is that they'll prefer using whatev

Re: Re: Adding half-star to Unicode?

2016-06-24 Thread Philippe Verdy
Or just reuse the code already assigned to the circled A (the most common basic symbol), ignoring the many variants of shapes and colors. 2016-06-24 19:20 GMT+02:00 Leonardo Boiko : > > My bet is that they'll prefer using whatever code they want, hacking > fonts as necessary to overtake another p