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Show HN: How we got the POWER SYMBOL accepted into Unicode in 60 days

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

by jloughry • 12 years ago

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jloughry2• 12 years ago

This was first proposed on HN in December. It took about two months to get it done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6828102

edent• 12 years ago

Really proud to have been a part of this :-)

You can see the fonts in action at http://unicodepowersymbol.com/

jloughry2• 12 years ago

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_...

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