How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters

Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by shakethemonkey on Thursday June 23, 2016 @01:57AM (#11959139)

>The scope of the Unicode Standard (and ISO/IEC 10646) does not extend to encoding every symbol or sign that bears meaning in the world.

Until Unicode has a half-star character, it won't even be able to encode the average newspaper.

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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by kens on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:19AM (#11959381)

Somebody should propose the half star (used in star ratings) to Unicode. Seriously.

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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by namaemuta on Thursday June 23, 2016 @06:53AM (#11960059)

Multiply your rating system by 2 and you won't need half stars :)

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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by sullyj3 on Thursday June 23, 2016 @09:22PM (#11965596)

This makes subitizing much more difficult though.

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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by alanh on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:47PM (#11973337)

This comment taught me a word. Separately, you are completely correct and this is extremely valid in the design of rating systems.

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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by ape4 on Thursday June 23, 2016 @08:08AM (#11960318)

Only the star with the left side filled in. And an outline on the right.

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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by mjevans on Thursday June 23, 2016 @07:12PM (#11964994)

I think something like an occlusion mask modifier (slice off this much from this side/corner) would be more useful.

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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by Bromskloss on Thursday June 23, 2016 @06:12AM (#11959880)

And two thirds, and three fifths, …

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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by dagaci on Thursday June 23, 2016 @07:14AM (#11960139)

good idea

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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by nkrisc on Thursday June 23, 2016 @11:42AM (#11961857)

What if my products are rated in smiley-faces?

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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by agumonkey on Thursday June 23, 2016 @08:44AM (#11960448)

This is the role of digits I believe.

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