Dwarf planet glyphs are now officially in Unicode 1 by Cruiser1 Unicode proposal #21224: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21224- ... t-syms.pdf Unicode recently accepted the proposal linked to above. That means Unicode will now have official symbols and character positions for Dwarf planets Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, and Orcus. (Eris and Sedna already have symbols in Unicode.) This means that all of the "Seven Dwarfs" or the seven largest bodies beyond Pluto have official glyphs now. It also means they will eventually appear in standard fonts, so everybody on any system will be able to display them without having to install special custom fonts. Astrolog (starting with version 7.20) is one program that supports all Seven Dwarfs, and uses all these glyphs. Astrolog's usage of the glyphs (along with that of the Astronomicon font that Astrolog supports) is mentioned in the proposal as a contributing factor. The proposal also includes a snapshot of one of Astrolog's animations showing the orbits of the Seven Dwarfs labeled with the glyphs. The full picture (animating) can be seen below: Astrolog 7.60 freeware downloads: http://www.astrolog.org/astrolog.htm Quote Tue Mar 08, 2022 5:10 am
3 by Michael Sternbach Awesome, Walter! As far as I am aware, the astrology programme that you so generously offer and keep upgrading since decades for free is world's no. 1 when it comes to instructive graphs and entrancing animations! _________________ Visit my blog: https://michaelsternbach.wordpress.com/ Quote Thu Mar 10, 2022 6:08 am
4 by Cruiser1 Michael Sternbach wrote:As far as I am aware, the astrology programme that you so generously offer and keep upgrading since decades for free is world's no. 1 when it comes to instructive graphs and entrancing animations!Thank you! The next version of Astrolog (7.40) is under development and should offer improvements in these and other areas. About the new Dwarf planet glyphs, note that Mike Brown (whose team discovered Eris and all of the Seven Dwarfs) Tweeted about its acceptance by Unicode: https://twitter.com/plutokiller/status/ ... 1702407169 About other glyphs, the very next Unicode comment (#21225) shows that at an earlier date the Centaurs Pholus and Nessus received Unicode glyphs too: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21225- ... omment.pdf Astrolog 7.60 freeware downloads: http://www.astrolog.org/astrolog.htm Quote Fri Mar 11, 2022 7:33 am