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The name itself sounds like it should be a graph of a downward trend line on a graph. I’m guessing the person who implemented it got this exact requirement wor

The name itself sounds like it should be a graph of a downward trend line on a graph. I’m guessing the person who implemented it got this exact requirement wording in the Unicode definition and nothing else, didn’t make the logical connection, and just implemented it as close to literally as they could.

Jarmsy 5y ago
There's already U+1F4C9 for that though.
- scbrg 5y ago
  If by "already" you mean "eight years later" :) ⍼ (U+237C) is in Unicode 3.2 (from 2002), (U+1F4C9) is from Unicode 6.0 (from 2010). [edit]: HN ate my 1F4C9 glyph. Use your imagination :)
  - mkl 5y ago
    https://codepoints.net/U+1F4C9 https://codepoints.net/U+1F4C9 CHART WITH DOWNWARDS TREND
donkeyd 5y ago
The update under the article has an explanation of where the name probably came from: > I had no idea what it meant or was used for, thus assigned it a “descriptive name” when collating the symbols for the STIX project. If I understand this correctly in the context, this person named the glyph based on what it looked like. So it wasn't the other way around.
- mkl 5y ago
  It's possible both events happened. The downward trend line character certainly seems like something people might have wanted.
throw0101a 5y ago
> The name itself sounds like it should be a graph of a downward trend line on a graph. Or a lightning bolt through a window (with only the bottom-left of the window frame being visible).
MauranKilom 5y ago
But if I read the article correctly, this glyph comes from a set of math symbols. I don't think "stock goes down" was ever used in any mathematical script.