Re: Adding half-star to Unicode?

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 <gwalla_at_gmail.com>:

> 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 <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr>
> 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 <gwalla_at_gmail.com>:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Ken Shirriff <ken.shirriff_at_gmail.com>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>>
>
Received on Thu Jun 23 2016 - 17:22:24 CDT