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<div>Tahoma: U+002A and U+204E are both six-pointed</div>
<div>Times New Roman: U+002A are U+204E are both six-pointed</div>
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<div>Many fonts have no U+204E, but there are also examples which have five-pointed stars for U+002A (e. g. Arial)</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 31. März 2023 um 00:08 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Asmus Freytag" <asmusf@ix.netcom.com><br/>
<b>An:</b> "Marius Spix" <marius.spix@web.de><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: Fw: Inverted asterism</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/30/2023 11:12 AM, Marius Spix via Unicode wrote:</div>
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<div>You can already represent this with U+002A + U+204E + U+002A: *⁎*</div>
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204E is five pointed.
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<div>There are many examples, where asterisks are used as ornaments. There is another one: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alice_in_Wonderland_Page_15.jpg" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alice_in_Wonderland_Page_15.jpg</a></div>
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<p>I don't think these examples are "decoration" in the sense of "making something look pretty".</p>
<p>Instead, they seem variations of the use of punctuation to mark sections. A form of section separator, if you like.</p>
<p>The details of different appearance may or may not be significant, but collectively, the pattern does have a semantic value as separator.</p>
<p>A./</p>
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<div style="margin: 0 0 10.0px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 30. März 2023 um 18:54 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "David Starner via Unicode" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org" onclick="parent.window.location.href='mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org'; return false;" target="_blank"><unicode@corp.unicode.org></a><br/>
<b>An:</b> "Unicode" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org" onclick="parent.window.location.href='mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org'; return false;" target="_blank"><unicode@corp.unicode.org></a><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Inverted asterism</div>
<div>There doesn't seem to be an inverted asterism in Unicode. Is there a<br/>
good reason there's not?<br/>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Monthly_scrap_book,_for_February.pdf/24" target="_blank">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Monthly_scrap_book,_for_February.pdf/24</a><br/>
shows the example I have at hand, from an 1832 English-language<br/>
periodical from Scotland.</div>
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