Le 07/09/2015 19:49, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov a écrit :
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
Your description looks more like a glyph specification than a (more
semantic) character description. I suspect that ⏴U+23F4 BLACK MEDIUM
LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE and ⏵U+23F5 BLACK MEDIUM RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE,
introduced in Unicode 7.0 as interface symbols (anyone remember which
proposal it was ?) are what you are looking for.
2) "Forking" characher (not the math one, but VCS one).
ref: in the middle on the attached "pwl" picture.
This one seems legit to me, but the “external link sign” seemed legit to
me and was rejected (see http://unicode.org/alloc/nonapprovals.html ).
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.
You are looking for ⏸U+23F8 DOUBLE VERTICAL BAR (alternate name: pause),
introduced in Unicode 7.0 for that specific purpose (I don’t remember
the proposal)
4) "Power" (like on power buttons on electronic devices)
As said by Steven, this one is already in the pipeline, even if not
accepted yet
And, actually, imho, it also be nice to have all of symbols from the picture
in the Unicode.
Things like 🔒 U+1F512 LOCK ?
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 ☹),
That is not a Unicode problem, it is an interface problem, arguably a
bug in CLI/console developement.
like: "cart", "exit", "barcode"
The shopping cart is currently under consideration (see
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15195r2-emoji-add-tranche6.pdf, as U+1F6D2)
(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.
That’s a big No since 1999 : these symbols are logos, and excluded with
Unicode. No one wants to deal with the legal nightmares of doing so.
Frédéric
