> In Dingbats, characters are mostly coded for their appearance, i.e. like you suggest. Would it be more useful to have some or all of the following, in a more semantic block?
>
> HIGHEST RATING *****
> HIGHER RATING ****+
> HIGH RATING ****
> MID-HIGH RATING ***+
> MEDIUM RATING ***
> MID-LOW RATING **+
> LOW RATING **
> LOWER RATING *+
> LOWEST RATING *
> NO RATING
>
> This way font designers could choose more freely how to display ratings, e.g. by thumb or arrow up or down, partially filled disc, tomato, five stars in the same space as 1 star …
If I understand this correctly, this would lead to a bias for using a
5-star scale for ratings.
Stephan
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