Unicode

Just use private use area for your made-up-on-the-spot language. It's not a problem. Do you have a symbols that satisfy the unicode 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 quality (e.g. leafless tree emoji), some are good (numerals for Eastern Pwo Karen and Pa’O).

See also https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode/#readme

So glad the unicodepowersymbol.com stuff was helpful! We had a lot of fun getting the proposal together. If anyone wants to submit some new characters, all of our documents are on GitHub https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode

This 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.

Can anybody see how the characters look like? Wouldn't it 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 reused, what are the remaining four?

"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. : )

... because you don't 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.

To propose this character to the UTC (Unicode Technical Committee) you'll need to include as many examples as possible showing the symbol used in running text. Physical objects and logos won't do; you need to show historical use of the symbol in running text (newspaper or magazine articles, books, 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

Anyone can propose the addition of a new character to Unicode. It doesn't take $18,000 as some people think. You just need to convince the Unicode Consortium that it makes sense (preferably with solid evidence on use of the character). The process is discussed at: http://unicode.org/pending/proposals.html I have a proposal of my own in the works to add a character to Unicode, so I'll see how 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.

Let's see what happens if I paste the new characters directly into a comment. Here are 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_...

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 the end of January, so I have a few weeks to get the proposal written. Do you know how to make a TrueType or PostScript font? We need a small one that contains only the new symbols.

I started a project on GitHub to do it: https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode