> 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.
As with the moon (U+1F311..U+1F318), why not do a fractional system per
rating point, ranging from EMPTY RATING to FULL RATING?
The font designers could choose how to display the ratings, and the system
would have no scale bias.
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