Adding half-star to Unicode?

Philippe Verdy verdy_p at wanadoo.fr
Thu Jun 23 16:44:10 CDT 2016


Only one of the two would be enough: the existing **full** white star (☆),
but only half filled.
However a second one may be needed for RTL : half filling may be done on
the left or right side of the white star.
This would then be WHITE STAR WITH LEFT HALF BLACK, WHITE STAR WITH RIGHT
HALF BLACK
Possibly we may also need top and bottom half filling (for vertical written
scripts, top to bottom, or bottom to top)


2016-06-23 21:53 GMT+02:00 Ken Shirriff <ken.shirriff at gmail.com>:

> 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
>
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