Unicode symbol syntax in flowchart/graph: "u:u-gear" -> ⚙

[ioggstream]

Proposal

I wish

• to reference unicode symbols by name in mermaid. This will improve diagram interoperability without relying on external fonts.

Note

In python3.11 you can do it

print("This is a \N{GEAR}. Now a \N{DOTTED SQUARE}.")

'This is a ⚙. Now a ⬚'

Example

graph

A["This is a u:u-gear"] -->|will render as| B["This is a ⚙"]
C["A u:u-dotted-square"] -->|will render as| D["A ⬚"]

Screenshots

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[sidharthv96]

~~@ioggstream, is there a standard list of name -> unicode mapping available somewhere?~~

Python seems to be using data from https://www.unicode.org/Public/9.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt

[ioggstream]

@sidharthv96 yes, that's it. I used https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Index.txt This is a js package too https://www.npmjs.com/package/unicode (but I never used it).

[SillyCoon]

Hi! Can I pick this up?