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| | Ask HN: Which useful symbols are missing from Unicode? | |
3 points by edent on Dec 1, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments |
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| I was looking for the electrical "standby" symbol - AKA IEC5009 / IEEE1621. You know, the circle with the line through it. The one that's on every single bloody piece of electronic equipment produced since the mid-1970s. It's not in the Unicode standard. I can, if I want, have a snowman ☃ or a reversed rotated floral bullet ☙. What other useful and/or important symbols are missing from Unicode? |
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http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html
I would be willing help work on this. We could keep the proposal documents on GitHub as a starting point for others who might need it in future.
If we are going to do this, let's include all the IEC power symbols and keep them together in a group:
IEC 5007, power on (line) symbol
IEC 5008, power off (circle) symbol
IEC 5009, standby (line through a broken circle) symbol
IEC 5010, power on/off (line inside a circle)
None of these currently in the Unicode pipeline http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html of symbols already proposed.