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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve responded privately to Rebecca and to Debbie Anderson from SAH.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We did make a significant effort to get Powerline and other symbols encoded, comparable to the successful multi-year effort to encode Symbols for Legacy Computing. We encountered additional challenges with this newer proposal, and I was unable to devote time in the first half on 2021 to resolving them, but we will try again.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white'>Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Unicode <unicode-bounces@corp.unicode.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rebecca Bettencourt via Unicode<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 11, 2021 17:17<br><b>To:</b> Mark E. Shoulson <mark@kli.org><br><b>Cc:</b> unicode@corp.unicode.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Powerline symbols?<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>As you (Mark) discovered, the name originates from the piece of software which first used these characters, called Powerline. It's a plugin for vim, tmux, bash, i3, and several other environments that adds a fancy status line to the terminal.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The characters have been proposed before, in document L2/19-068R2. The SAH recommended encoding three of them (the branch symbol and the row and column number symbols) but the UTC took no action. I vaguely recall a recommendation (from the SAH?) for the author, Renzhi Li, to contact the "Terminals Working Group" (Doug Ewell, me, and a few other individuals) to work out integrating them into a "round 2" Symbols for Legacy Computing proposal. We were never contacted by the author but we integrated them into a "round 2" proposal anyway, with the suggestion to use the same code points as were recommended by the SAH.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>That "round 2" proposal was brought to the UTC but for some reason was never added to the document register. We had an hour-long meeting in which the UTC reviewed it and had several concerns that were not resolved within that hour. The proposal has not progressed further since then.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>-- Rebecca Bettencourt<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>