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Proposal to add IEC power symbols to Unicode

14 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 12 comments · first 2013-12-01 · latest 2024-07-23

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  1. …consortium criteria? Submit a proposal. Here is a good guide how to do is and be successfull: https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode/?tab=readme-ov-file#less... Edit: I looked at some proposal for in Unicode 16. Some proposals are of poor…
    comment by mnau · 2024-07-23 · in The Elegance of the ASCII Table
  2. See also https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode/#readme
    comment by boogies · 2022-10-28 · in Which emoji scissors close (2020)
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    Notes on adding IEC power symbols to Unicode
    story by fanf2 · 2019-12-03 · 0 comments
  4. …together. If anyone wants to submit some new characters, all of our documents are on GitHub https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode
    comment by edent · 2016-10-04 · in How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too)
  5. …is a link by the article's author that is intended to make it easier for us to add useful symbols: https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode I recommend you use it to add any glyphs that you feel are being neglected.
    comment by failrate · 2016-06-23 · in How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters
  6. …be good to have the pictures of all 4 and half? Some link? I see there was a proposal here in PDF: https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode/raw/master/power_symbol_... But there's a lot of glyphs there. What was accepted then? If the circle was…
    comment by acqq · 2016-06-23 · in How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters
  7. "If you want to get more symbols into Unicode, please use our Open Source Guide." https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode Note: glad to see they documented their process. : )
    comment by iokevins · 2016-06-22 · in We did it How a comment on HackerNews lead to 4 ½ new Unicode characters
  8. …have a sufficiently Unicode 9 compatible font to see ⏻, ⏼, ⭘,⏽, ⏾? You can seem them as images at https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode along with a link to a font which supports it, and a chart which shows browser support.
    comment by dalke · 2016-06-22 · in We did it How a comment on HackerNews lead to 4 ½ new Unicode characters
  9. …liner notes, et cetera). Find examples, and we could make the proposal. We've done it before on HN: https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode/#readme
    comment by jloughry · 2016-05-01 · in The Legend of Prince’s Special Custom-Font Symbol Floppy Disks
  10. …it goes. There's a discussion of how someone successfully got the power symbol added to Unicode at https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode so take a look if you're thinking of proposing a character.
    comment by kens · 2015-03-18 · in I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode
  11. …23FB ⏻, 23FC ⏼, 23FD ⏽, 2B58 ⭘, and 1F32D 🌭. You'll see them if you have the .ttf font installed: https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode/blob/master/Unicode_IEC_...
    comment by jloughry · 2014-03-05 · in Show HN: How we got the POWER SYMBOL accepted into Unicode in 60 days
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    Show HN: How we got the POWER SYMBOL accepted into Unicode in 60 days
    story by jloughry · 2014-03-05 · 3 comments
  13. I've updated https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode with more information, the beginnings of a project plan, and some research. I think I can get all the needed IEC, IEEE, and ISO standards through my school. The next quarterly meeting is at…
    comment by jloughry · 2013-12-03 · in Ask HN: Which useful symbols are missing from Unicode?
  14. I started a project on GitHub to do it: https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode
    comment by jloughry · 2013-12-01 · in Ask HN: Which useful symbols are missing from Unicode?