emojis for mouse buttons?

[John W Kennedy via Unicode]

Operationally, one does not program for “left” or “right” buttons, because left-handed users are encouraged to set a switch that logically turns the mouse around, with “Button 1” being the button worked by the index finger, no matter what side of the mouse it’s on.

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> On Dec 31, 2019, at 10:52 AM, Philippe Verdy via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
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> I say "emoji" because they would belong to the subsets of emojis, within characters, and existing mouse characters (but not button-specific) are already encoded as emojis (i.e. two styles: basic glyphs or color icons).
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> What is important is less the mouse than the identification of the button (left/center/right) for documenting keymaps in UI (the documentation usually indicate the default right-hand assignment, a user may still configure the mouse driver to swap the left/right buttons).
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> For now the alternative is to compose a localisable string like "L" or "R" or "C", followed by the generic mouse (when documenting keymaps, the surrounding square and shading may be done outside using styling, we just need the unique symbol in a more immediately readable way than just "click".
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> A generic clic (1st button) is sometimes represented as an arrow cursor or hand with a pointing finger, and some radial strokes near the tip of the arrow, but it is not very distinctive when we need to explicitly disinguish the buttons, so I suggest a basic empty shape (rounded rectangle or ovoid like a narrow theta "Θ"), with the top part split in three cells by horizontal and vertical strokes, and one of the three cells filled (representing the wire or the wireless waves is not necessary).
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> Le mar. 31 déc. 2019 à 14:57, Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> Why are these called "emojis" for mouse buttons rather than just "characters" for them?
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>> On Tue, 31 Dec, 2019, 18:45 Philippe Verdy via Unicode, <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
>>> A lot of application need to document their keymap and want to display keys.
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>>> For now there are emojis for mouses (several variants: 1, 2 or 3 buttons), independently of the button actually pressed.
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>>> However there's no simple emoji to represent the very common mouse click buttons used in lot of UI.
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>>> But it would be good to have emojis for the left, center, and right click (showing a mouse with the correct button filled in black), instead of writing "left click" in plain text.
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>>> Has it been proposed ?
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>>> See for example https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ID/Shortcuts
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