Have Characters that Depict Electronic Components been Discussed?

[Doug Ewell]

Martin Vahi wrote:

> [...] if text is being used for a lot of novel "hacks" like the ASCII
> art and progress bar in computers and it would be quite cheap from
> spent code points amount point of view to define some small set of
> special characters for doing almost arbitrary 2D drawing, then what's
> the harm of defining that small set of such "sprite role" characters,
> specially if there are already so many characters defined in Unicode?

No proposal to encode any number of characters, one or a thousand, ever benefits from the argument that “there is plenty of space in Unicode.” Every proposal is accepted or rejected on its own merits. And that is as it should be.

I was certain there was an FAQ on the Unicode site about this, but I could not find one. If it has not yet been written, it should be; the topic does come up from time to time.

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