Re: Re: Adding half-star to Unicode?

2016-06-24 Thread Leonardo Boiko
> 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 : > My bet is that

Re: Emoji and Annotation data

2016-06-24 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
You should never be scraping *any* Unicode HTML files. They are not made for that, and there is no guarantee of stability. The emoji files are built from data which is described in http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/ (plus CLDR annotations and collation) Mark On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 7:21 AM,

Re: Re: Adding half-star to Unicode?

2016-06-24 Thread Garth Wallace
But would anarchists even want their symbol to be encoded? On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 7:04 AM, "Jörg Knappen" 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

Emoji and Annotation data

2016-06-24 Thread Takao Fujiwara
Hi, I'm working on IBus - the input method framework for Linux. I parse http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html and create a dictionary between the annotations and the Emoji characters. Since the file size is large and it's often updated, I'm thinking how to maintain the file. I

Aw: Re: Adding half-star to Unicode?

2016-06-24 Thread Jörg Knappen
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

Re: Adding half-star to Unicode?

2016-06-24 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
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