We did it! How a comment on HackerNews lead to 4 ½ new Unicode characters – Unicode Power SymbolOn 22 June 2016, Unicode version 9.0 was published. As part of that, 4 new symbols were introduced – and another one was re-purposed. This is the (brief) story of how a couple of geeks added ⏻, ⏼, ⭘,⏽, ⏾ to Unicode! On 2nd Dec 2013, I asked this question on HackerNews I was looking for the electrical “standby” symbol – AKA IEC5009 / IEEE1621. You know, the circle with the line through it. The one
