How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too)Computer history, restoring vintage computers, IC reverse engineering, and whatever Star characters (☆★) have long been part of the Unicode standard, which means they can appear as characters in web pages, text, and email. But half-stars were missing, so they required special images or custom fonts. I recently co-wrote a proposal to add half-star characters to Unicode, and it was just accepted. In
