There are also cases where these ratings are using a fixed number of stars, but ALL of them are filled. Only the fiull color changes: the rating shows for example the main rating stars in a plain contrasting blue, the other stars are soft grey shades (less contrastng on the background. And in this case, there's no WHITE STAR used !
2016-06-24 0:01 GMT+02:00 Garth Wallace <[email protected]>: > But precedent is for separate WITH LEFT HALF BLACK and WITH RIGHT HALF > BLACK geometric shapes. > > Also, I'm not sure if the BLACK HALF STAR and STAR WITH LEFT HALF BLACK > are entirely interchangeable. I usually see the former in situations using > a variable number of glyphs, where the number of glyphs shows the rating, > as in: > > ★ > ★★★ > ★★★★★ > > while I see the latter in ratings with a fixed number of glyphs, where the > number of *filled* glyphs shows the rating, as in: > > ★☆☆☆☆ > ★★★☆☆ > ★★★★★ > > It seems like either would work in the first case, but the LEFT HALF STAR > would be awkward in the second. > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> You're right, mirroring for RTL, and vertical presentation may avoid >> creating 4 characters, only one would then be needed: HALF-BLACK WHITE STAR >> ... >> >> 2016-06-23 23:34 GMT+02:00 Garth Wallace <[email protected]>: >> >>> 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? >>> >> >> >
