On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Ken Shirriff <[email protected]> wrote:
> Half-stars are used all over the place for reviews and many people have > expressed interest in a Unicode half star. I propose two new Unicode > characters: half a BLACK STAR (★) and a half-filled WHITE STAR (☆), i.e. a > half star without and with an outline. What do you think? Is there any > reason Unicode doesn't have a half star? > > Ken > Ratings are usually sequences of stars, with any half star coming at the end, like ★★★(half), AIUI, so it's usually the left side that's black. But what about in right-to-left contexts? Would they be bidi-mirrored?

