feat: Add religious symbols #89
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Add the unicode VS15 character to specify that these symbols should be displayed in text form and not emoji form
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On my computer it seems that even with the Variation Selector 15 (U+FE0E) it doesn't display as text but it does seem like that's a good idea to have that for systems that do honor that. |
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This dictionary should be for science writing only, and should not promote any religion, or be cluttered with seldom-used or questionable symbols just because some LaTeX library supports them. Adding the astrology symbols and swastikas already was questionable (the former can also be used for astronomy rather than the pseudoscience of astrology, so that was barely acceptable; and I am aware that the latter are originally and still a symbol of luck rather than the perverted meaning); adding even more religious symbols now would be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for me, and I would not pull or support upstream anymore (JFYI). |
Ultimately, it's your choice to use the project how you'd like. If you don't want to use these shortcuts, you don't have to. The extra few bytes it takes to store them is pretty negligible, so I don't really see any harm in allowing the community to add things they think some others would find useful. |
Add three religious symbols: \latinCross ✝︎, \starAndCrescent ☪︎, and \starOfDavid ✡︎. I think it's a very bad look for the only religious symbols in this entire dictionary to be the swastikas from #87, regardless of how innocently it is intended.
Potentially some other religious symbols could be added (this Wikipedia list is a good place to look). But ultimately I'm not familiar enough with enough religions to say which symbols are important, so I just left it at these three for this PR.