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shakethemonkey
on June 23, 2016
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How a comment on Hacker News led to 4 1/2 new Unicode...
>The scope of the Unicode Standard (and ISO/IEC 10646) does not extend to encoding every symbol or sign that bears meaning in the world.
Until Unicode has a half-star character, it won't even be able to encode the average newspaper.
kens
on June 23, 2016
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Somebody should propose the half star (used in star ratings) to Unicode. Seriously.
namaemuta
on June 23, 2016
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Multiply your rating system by 2 and you won't need half stars :)
sullyj3
on June 24, 2016
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This makes subitizing much more difficult though.
alanh
on June 24, 2016
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This comment taught me a word. Separately, you are completely correct and this is extremely valid in the design of rating systems.
ape4
on June 23, 2016
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Only the star with the left side filled in. And an outline on the right.
mjevans
on June 23, 2016
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I think something like an occlusion mask modifier (slice off this much from this side/corner) would be more useful.
Bromskloss
on June 23, 2016
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And two thirds, and three fifths, ...
dagaci
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good idea
nkrisc
on June 23, 2016
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What if my products are rated in smiley-faces?
agumonkey
on June 23, 2016
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This is the role of digits I believe.
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