Unicode characters are named after their appearance, not their
semantics. For example the diaresis and the umlaut share the code-point
U+0308. A printed booklet cannot be aware if the user is right- or
left-handed. This is the same issue as with U+2BEA and U+2BEB, which
are designed for ltr and rtl
this is user's settings; the OS and softwares will automatically adapt to
these settings to display the proper label or icon, as well they'll be able
to document them accordingly.
Primary/secondary/ternary buttons are not used, even in the OS itself (the
mouse drivers will remap the internal events
As I have already said, this will not do. Mouses do not have “left” and “right”
buttons; they have “primary” buttons, which may be on the left or right, and
“secondary” buttons, which may be on the right or left. If this goes through,
users with left-handed mouse setups will curse you forever.
Cecause the middle button of many mice is a scroll button, I think, we
need five different characters:
LEFT MOUSE BUTTON CLICK (mouse with left button black)
MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON CLICK (mouse with middle button black)
RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON CLICK (mouse with right button black)
MOUSE SCROLL UP (mouse w
Playing with the fiolling of the middle cell to mean a double click is a
bad idea, it would be better to add one or two rounded borders separated
from the button, or simply display two icons in sequence for a double
click).
Note that the glyphs do not necessarily have to show a mouse, it could as
so be unambiguous in monochrome as a
display default.
William Overington
Tuesday 31 December 2019
-- Original Message --
From: "Philippe Verdy via Unicode"
To: "Shriramana Sharma"
Cc: "unicode Unicode Discussion"
Sent: Tuesday, 2019 Dec 31 At 15:49
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Overington
Tuesday 31 December 2019
-- Original Message --
From: "Philippe Verdy via Unicode"
To: "unicode Unicode Discussion"
Sent: Tuesday, 2019 Dec 31 At 13:13
Subject: emojis for mouse buttons?
A lot of application need to document their keymap and want to displa
Θ"), with the top part split in three cells by
> horizontal and vertical strokes, and one of the three cells filled
> (representing the wire or the wireless waves is not necessary).
>
>
> Le mar. 31 déc. 2019 à 14:57, Shriramana Sharma a écrit :
>> Why are these called &qu
n three cells by
horizontal and vertical strokes, and one of the three cells filled
(representing the wire or the wireless waves is not necessary).
Le mar. 31 déc. 2019 à 14:57, Shriramana Sharma a
écrit :
> Why are these called "emojis" for mouse buttons rather than just
> "
Why are these called "emojis" for mouse buttons rather than just
"characters" for them?
On Tue, 31 Dec, 2019, 18:45 Philippe Verdy via Unicode,
wrote:
> A lot of application need to document their keymap and want to display
> keys.
>
> For now there are emojis fo
A lot of application need to document their keymap and want to display keys.
For now there are emojis for mouses (several variants: 1, 2 or 3 buttons),
independently of the button actually pressed.
However there's no simple emoji to represent the very common mouse click
buttons used in lot of UI.
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