2012/11/12 Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsso...@telia.com> > > rendering tomatoes or doughnuts or film reels as "glyph variants" of > > stars, > > They should certainly **NOT** be treated as glyph variants of stars! Ever!
Who said that ? NOT me. If you think so, this is a misinterpretation in what I said that the number of ways to represent numeric gauges already has a lot of variations, and once you start encoding some half-filled symbols, this will never find any end : the usages already exist. and if this must be formally encoded as plain-text, there are certainly better solutions to represent them in a very generic way using some sequences (using combining characters seems unlikely, but format controls is possible) : this will also have the advantage of preserving the intending semantics (including for collation/sorting purposes). For now we have digits to represent numeric values in plain text and they are enough. Pictograms are not needed in plain text.
