[Cryptography] Missing symbol annoyance with unicode technical standard.

[Patrick Chkoreff]

On 12/16/24 7:48 PM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> I have longstanding annoyance with the many, many different facets of 
> the Unicode standard's infamous, disastrous ability to form sequences of 
> codepoints that look exactly like other, different sequences of 
> codepoints.  But today I found a completely new, different, far more 
> easily mended and far less important reason to be annoyed with it.
> 
> In designing a text UI for an application where the users actually do 
> some key management, it would be nice if unicode had a "keyhole" icon, 
> distinct from the various "lock" icons.

Wow you're right.  All I could find even loosely related were:

U+26BF SQUARED KEY (parental lock)
U+1F50F LOCK WITH INK PEN
     (^^ strangely)
U+1F510 CLOSED LOCK WITH KEY
U+1F511 KEY
U+1F5DD OLD KEY

The LOCK codes do include a "hole" in the lock (of course), but not what 
you're looking for.  There are some "hole" related entries, like generic 
hole and golf course hole, but that's about it.


> Anybody got a good idea what block such a thing ought to go in?

Not sure how that works.  Are there open stretches "nearby" the 
lock-and-key items?


-- Patrick