Re: Adding half-star to Unicode?

[Asmus Freytag (c)]

On 6/23/2016 3:01 PM, Garth Wallace wrote: But precedent is for separate WITH LEFT HALF BLACK and WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK geometric shapes. Correct - best to not mix mirroring defaults Also, I'm not sure if the BLACK HALF STAR and STAR WITH LEFT HALF BLACK are entirely interchangeable. I usually see the former in situations using a variable number of glyphs, where the number of glyphs shows the rating, as in: ★ ★★★ ★★★★★ while I see the latter in ratings with a fixed number of glyphs, where the number of *filled* glyphs shows the rating, as in: ★☆☆☆☆ ★★★☆☆ ★★★★★ It seems like either would work in the first case, but the LEFT HALF STAR would be awkward in the second. Agreed. A./ On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: You're right, mirroring for RTL, and vertical presentation may avoid creating 4 characters, only one would then be needed: HALF-BLACK WHITE STAR ... 2016-06-23 23:34 GMT+02:00 Garth Wallace <gwa...@gmail.com>: On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Ken Shirriff <ken.shirr...@gmail.com> wrote: Half-stars are used all over the place for reviews and many people have expressed interest in a Unicode half star. I propose two new Unicode characters: half a BLACK STAR (★) and a half-filled WHITE STAR (☆), i.e. a half star without and with an outline. What do you think? Is there any reason Unicode doesn't have a half star? Ken Ratings are usually sequences of stars, with any half star coming at the end, like ★★★(half), AIUI, so it's usually the left side that's black. But what about in right-to-left contexts? Would they be bidi-mirrored?