Hello! The power symbol was already accepted, see http://unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html
Steven Enviado desde nuestro iPhone. > El sept 7, 2015, a las 10:49 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <[email protected]> > escribió: > > Hello there! > > First of all, I'm sorry in advance, if my message's tone is not suitable for > that mail list. > Next, I'd like to discuss the chances of some characters to be added in > Unicode at all. > Most of all I interested about: > > 1) Full-height right and left isosceles triangles, positioned in the edges of > the glyph space (so, when concatinated with space symbol on the background of > same color of it's foreground, it looks integrally [ref: triangles_demo > attach, although there is font rendering artefacts anyway, but, I hope, I > clearly decribed the idea]). > ref: symbols on the both edges on the attached "pwl" picture > > 2) "Forking" characher (not the math one, but VCS one). > ref: in the middle on the attached "pwl" picture. > > 3) "Pause" (media) character (it is ones for "play/pause" and "play" in the > unicode already, but it not for "pause"). There is "cheats" like using two > vertical bars instead, usually it looks very ugly. > > 4) "Power" (like on power buttons on electronic devices) > > And, actually, imho, it also be nice to have all of symbols from the picture > in the Unicode. > > P.S. I'd also ask about some more symbols, which is "missed" in everyday life > and substituted with glyphicons on the web (but, you know, it is impossible > to > use glyphicons in CLI/console applications ☹), like: "cart", "exit", > "barcode" > (ideally, including also "qr" and "datamatrix" ones), and more, and more, but > let's initially talk about that ones I talked initially ☺ > > P.P.S.: and also it would be nice, I think, to have "icons" symbols of major > OS brands (at least, Windows, MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD) to stop them (first two > ones) of using Private set for that. > > > -- > Best regards, > mva > <pwl.png> > <triangles_demo.png>
