Den 2012-11-11 23:08, skrev "Doug Ewell" <d...@ewellic.org>:
> Personal opinions follow. > > It looks like the only actual use case we have, exemplified by the xkcd > strip, is for a star with the left half black and the right half white. > There *might* also be a case for the left-white, right-black star. > > Everything else, including one-quarter and three-quarter stars, > rendering tomatoes or doughnuts or film reels as "glyph variants" of > stars, They should certainly **NOT** be treated as glyph variants of stars! Ever! > facilitating a right-to-left rating system for Arabic- or > Hebrew-speaking environments, Naa. Recall that these symbols (whether of g.c. So or Sm) have bidi category ON (other neutral). So a string of stars, presumably starting with black stars (0 or more) and ending in white stars (0 or more) with possibly a "half" star inbetween, would automatically be "reversed" (displayed right to left) via the bidi algorithm when they occur in a right-to-left context. Getting the "half" star then get the "wrong half" of it be black would be annoying at least... > or turning Unicode into a standard for rating systems in general, Here I agree. (Not sure why that branch of this tread is still ongoing...) /Kent K > is a complete flight of fancy by comparison > to Jörg's original post. > > I think in this case, as in many others, one introductory, exploratory > proposal would be worth ten thousand speculative mailing-list posts. > > -- > Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA > http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell > >