Or just reuse the code already assigned to the circled A (the most common basic symbol), ignoring the many variants of shapes and colors.
2016-06-24 19:20 GMT+02:00 Leonardo Boiko <[email protected]>: > > My bet is that they'll prefer using whatever code they want, hacking > fonts as necessary to overtake another political symbol when they'll want. > > > They could liberate a code point from the private use area. > > > 2016-06-24 14:10 GMT-03:00 Philippe Verdy <[email protected]>: > >> My bet is that they'll prefer using whatever code they want, hacking >> fonts as necessary to overtake another political symbol when they'll want. >> They could do that easily with Webfonts today (by designing a tiny webfont >> with just one glyph mapped to any code point, including some ASCII symbol >> such as the DOLLAR sign). They would even refuse any normalization and >> would not even use the codepoint proposed for them, or by remapping some >> ASCII-art string (the classic emoticons of Usenet; if we even attempt to >> define standard colors, or glyph design, they'll invent another >> incompatible design, will change colors, will rotate it, will change it >> into an exploding star...). However the historic anarchists symbol that was >> seen on walls and painted banners in Europe in the 19th and early 20th >> century was only black. >> >> And it was not really a star, but derived from the A letter in a circle, >> with the horizontal bar frequently replaced by some fire arm, or slnated >> and looking more like a thin arrow head slightly pointing upward (Various >> decorations could be added on top: a striker throwing a mollotov... or >> flowers; a plus sign; a "V" on top to mean "victory"). The strokes were >> most often very irregular, as if they were brushed very rapidly on a wall. >> More polished forms have been used where it is a standard A in an circle >> open at the bottom and a small curved leg. Not all of them want flags with >> colors. Other groups just use a red-filled standard 5-pointed star, over a >> plain black background. >> >> In London still today, there's most often no star, just a red and black >> flag (color cut on the diagonal). The red side or black side may be >> attached on the hanging stem, but generally a black side is below the right >> side. The red color varies also (green, dark purple, pink, orange, >> white...) but the black color is seems to be always there (even if it's >> just the classic circle A, that black may be used to fill the glyph, or the >> background. There's no dedicated support, the symbols may be used >> everywhere, integrated in all sort of graphics, made with various materials. >> >> The flag may be raised in all positions. In Australia, this is a vertical >> rainbow over a black area. >> >> Other symbols of anarchism include a closed hand (fist) raised upward (in >> a sign of protest) with a venom snake. The anarchist movements have always >> been inventive and protecting against all sort of political regimes, >> democartic or not, in fact they protest against all forms of state >> government, and their official symbols. >> >> 2016-06-24 17:55 GMT+02:00 Garth Wallace <[email protected]>: >> >>> But would anarchists even want their symbol to be encoded? >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 7:04 AM, "Jörg Knappen" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Talking about fancy five stars, besides the vertically split ones there >>>> is the "Anarchist star" (a symbol for anarcho-syndicalism) >>>> with a diagonal split in a upper left red half and a lower left black >>>> half. Since there are political and ideological symbols encoded >>>> in UNicode, maybe this one is worth encoding as well (probably twice, >>>> once as a black and white plain symbol and once as a colourful Emoji). >>>> >>>> See here: >>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Anarcho-Syndicalism#/media/File:Anarchist_star.svg >>>> >>>> FIVE PIONTED STAR WITH BLACK LOWER RIGHT HALF = anarchist star >>>> ANARCHIST STAR EMOJI >>>> >>>> --Jörg Knappen >>>> >>>> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 24. Juni 2016 um 14:12 Uhr >>>> *Von:* "Frédéric Grosshans" <[email protected]> >>>> *An:* [email protected] >>>> *Betreff:* Re: Adding half-star to Unicode? >>>> Le 24/06/2016 00:37, Leo Broukhis a écrit : >>>> > For a previous discussion on the topic, please see >>>> > the thread "Missing geometric shapes" around 11/12/12 >>>> The thread starts here : >>>> http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2012-m11/0008.html >>>> >>>> It contains an example of half-filled star used in RTL (Hebrew) context, >>>> in an advertisement in Haaretz here >>>> http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2012-m11/0024.html >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >
