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I deliberately made power.standby the first variant so that you can also use it as just power. Note that this symbol represents toggling standby mode in particular. A full on/off toggle should always use ⏼ .
(Edit: At least that's how I heard it, can't remember where from tho)
Edit 2: Okay, not just hearsay, Wikipedia corroborates.
I don't think I ever saw ⏼ IRL. Generally, buttons that are used to turn a device on or off depending on its current state use ⏻ where I live (France).
The Wikipedia page has a subsection on the ambiguity of ⏻ and how it was redefined to be a generic power symbol, and the crescent (our power.sleep) was added for the standby meaning. So I'm in favor of removing standby.
(This reminds me of this post from the person who took on the journey of getting these symbols in Unicode)
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T0mstone commentedon Feb 12, 2025
I deliberately made
power.standbythe first variant so that you can also use it as justpower. Note that this symbol represents toggling standby mode in particular. A full on/off toggle should always use ⏼ .(Edit: At least that's how I heard it, can't remember where from tho)
Edit 2: Okay, not just hearsay, Wikipedia corroborates.
MDLC01 commentedon Feb 12, 2025
I don't think I ever saw ⏼ IRL. Generally, buttons that are used to turn a device on or off depending on its current state use ⏻ where I live (France).
Enivex commentedon Feb 12, 2025
You are probably referring to this
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iec:grs:60417:5009
However, the IEEE 1621 standard elaborates
Both Unicode and IEEE call it simply the power symbol (see https://unicode-explorer.com/c/23FB)
The distinction seems to be that ⏼ is always a hard on-off switch, while ⏻ is more general.
I'd prefer dropping
standbyand simply letting it bepowersijow commentedon Jul 4, 2025
The Wikipedia page has a subsection on the ambiguity of ⏻ and how it was redefined to be a generic power symbol, and the crescent (our
power.sleep) was added for the standby meaning. So I'm in favor of removingstandby.(This reminds me of this post from the person who took on the journey of getting these symbols in Unicode)