Bug 97164

Summary:	Provide power symbols
Product:	DejaVu	Reporter:	Adolfo Jayme <fitojb>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	elucian.moise
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
URL:	https://unicodepowersymbol.com/
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Adolfo Jayme 2016-08-01 10:46:05 UTC

Unicode 9.0 has added the ISO/IEC/IEEE power symbols (standby, on, off, etc.) to the Miscellaneous Technical block [1]. These characters are pretty useful in e.g. technical documentation, manuals and UI elements such as the GtkSwitch widget. The codepoints are:

POWER SYMBOL         U+23FB  ⏻
POWER ON-OFF SYMBOL  U+23FC  ⏼
POWER ON SYMBOL      U+23FD  ⏽
HEAVY CIRCLE         U+2B58  ⭘
POWER SLEEP SYMBOL   U+23FE  ⏾

[1]: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-9.0/U90-2300.pdf

Comment 1 Elucian Moise 2019-01-24 14:24:27 UTC

I'm working on a new computer language named Wee, that is using DejaVu Mono Sans for operators. In computer science symbol "^" is used for power but also the same symbol is used for xor. Having the power symbol created I could use it for "power" (xⁿ) instead of (x^n). The problem I have arises due to lack of letters for superscript. Only several letters are available not all alphabet letters.

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