> My bet is that they'll prefer using whatever code they want, hacking fonts as necessary to overtake another political symbol when they'll want.
They could liberate a code point from the private use area. 2016-06-24 14:10 GMT-03:00 Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr>: > My bet is that they'll prefer using whatever code they want, hacking fonts > as necessary to overtake another political symbol when they'll want. They > could do that easily with Webfonts today (by designing a tiny webfont with > just one glyph mapped to any code point, including some ASCII symbol such > as the DOLLAR sign). They would even refuse any normalization and would not > even use the codepoint proposed for them, or by remapping some ASCII-art > string (the classic emoticons of Usenet; if we even attempt to define > standard colors, or glyph design, they'll invent another incompatible > design, will change colors, will rotate it, will change it into an > exploding star...). However the historic anarchists symbol that was seen on > walls and painted banners in Europe in the 19th and early 20th century was > only black. > > And it was not really a star, but derived from the A letter in a circle, > with the horizontal bar frequently replaced by some fire arm, or slnated > and looking more like a thin arrow head slightly pointing upward (Various > decorations could be added on top: a striker throwing a mollotov... or > flowers; a plus sign; a "V" on top to mean "victory"). The strokes were > most often very irregular, as if they were brushed very rapidly on a wall. > More polished forms have been used where it is a standard A in an circle > open at the bottom and a small curved leg. Not all of them want flags with > colors. Other groups just use a red-filled standard 5-pointed star, over a > plain black background. > > In London still today, there's most often no star, just a red and black > flag (color cut on the diagonal). The red side or black side may be > attached on the hanging stem, but generally a black side is below the right > side. The red color varies also (green, dark purple, pink, orange, > white...) but the black color is seems to be always there (even if it's > just the classic circle A, that black may be used to fill the glyph, or the > background. There's no dedicated support, the symbols may be used > everywhere, integrated in all sort of graphics, made with various materials. > > The flag may be raised in all positions. In Australia, this is a vertical > rainbow over a black area. > > Other symbols of anarchism include a closed hand (fist) raised upward (in > a sign of protest) with a venom snake. The anarchist movements have always > been inventive and protecting against all sort of political regimes, > democartic or not, in fact they protest against all forms of state > government, and their official symbols. > > 2016-06-24 17:55 GMT+02:00 Garth Wallace <gwa...@gmail.com>: > >> But would anarchists even want their symbol to be encoded? >> >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 7:04 AM, "Jörg Knappen" <jknap...@web.de> wrote: >> >>> Talking about fancy five stars, besides the vertically split ones there >>> is the "Anarchist star" (a symbol for anarcho-syndicalism) >>> with a diagonal split in a upper left red half and a lower left black >>> half. Since there are political and ideological symbols encoded >>> in UNicode, maybe this one is worth encoding as well (probably twice, >>> once as a black and white plain symbol and once as a colourful Emoji). >>> >>> See here: >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Anarcho-Syndicalism#/media/File:Anarchist_star.svg >>> >>> FIVE PIONTED STAR WITH BLACK LOWER RIGHT HALF = anarchist star >>> ANARCHIST STAR EMOJI >>> >>> --Jörg Knappen >>> >>> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 24. Juni 2016 um 14:12 Uhr >>> *Von:* "Frédéric Grosshans" <frederic.grossh...@gmail.com> >>> *An:* unicode@unicode.org >>> *Betreff:* Re: Adding half-star to Unicode? >>> Le 24/06/2016 00:37, Leo Broukhis a écrit : >>> > For a previous discussion on the topic, please see >>> > the thread "Missing geometric shapes" around 11/12/12 >>> The thread starts here : >>> http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2012-m11/0008.html >>> >>> It contains an example of half-filled star used in RTL (Hebrew) context, >>> in an advertisement in Haaretz here >>> http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2012-m11/0024.html >>> >>> >>> >> >> >