> In Dingbats, characters are mostly coded for their appearance, i.e. like >> you suggest. Would it be more useful to have some or all of the following, >> in a more semantic block? >> >> HIGHEST RATING ***** >> HIGHER RATING ****+ >> HIGH RATING **** >> MID-HIGH RATING ***+ >> MEDIUM RATING *** >> MID-LOW RATING **+ >> LOW RATING ** >> LOWER RATING *+ >> LOWEST RATING * >> NO RATING >> >> This way font designers could choose more freely how to display ratings, >> e.g. by thumb or arrow up or down, partially filled disc, tomato, five >> stars in the same space as 1 star … >> > > If I understand this correctly, this would lead to a bias for using a > 5-star scale for ratings.
As with the moon (U+1F311..U+1F318), why not do a fractional system per rating point, ranging from EMPTY RATING to FULL RATING? The font designers could choose how to display the ratings, and the system would have no scale bias.