On 11/06/2012 03:55 PM, Michael Everson wrote:
It would be convenient to be able to exchange such stars in plain text
Convenience isn't what we base these decisions on, as we often find ourselves explaining to people with yet another "Wouldn't It Be Nice If" proposal.
That said, I do think it would be reasonable and appropriate to encode the half-stars. There's no such thing as "plain text" on paper (everything in print is formatted somehow), but star ratings are really common in tables that contain nothing else but text, etc. I guess the plain stars have more support, being dingbats in printers' cases since long ago, but these half-stars do feel "texty" to me, anyway.
~mark
