Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement & other Unicode 16 semigraphics

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There are a lot of symbols under the new Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement block. Some of them are very tricky to make (like the outlined letters -- we MAY need to build an automated outlining algorithm to generate these).

L2: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21235r-terminals-supplement.pdf

[Logo121]

A quick progress report: After #2293, these symbols are left to be implemented, categorized by their shape:

Dots

• Speckles 𜱆𜱇
• Explosion 𜷽𜷾𜷿
  The laziest implementation is probably to implement them like mosaics (and hardcoding each dots), but there might be better ways.

Terminal shapes

• Non-round voided cross 🯋
• Black Small Chevron 🯍
  Both have a close equivalent 🯀🯊 so implementations depend on them. Not sure how.

Symbols with curves

• Curved Gates 𜰕𜰖
• Coil 𜰋𜰌𜰍

Game sprites without curves

• Rocket 𜱖𜱗𜱘𜱙
• Moon Lander 𜷵
• Rocket Booster? 𜲠𜲡 (Looks like a teletext mosaic to me)
• Roller Coaster? 𜲢𜲣

Game sprites with potentially simple curves

• Rifle 𜱥𜱦𜱧𜱨
• Bassinet 𜱈𜱉
• Tank 𜲞𜲟
• Bomb 𜱠𜱡𜱢𜱣
• UFO 𜲤𜲥

Game sprites with harder curves

• UFO? 𜱊𜱋
• Aliens 𜱌𜱍𜱎𜱏𜱐𜱑𜱒𜱓𜱔𜱕
• Storm cloud 𜱤 (or depending on interpretation, a pinball plunger)
• Fish and bird𜲒𜲓𜲔𜲕𜲖
• Turtle 𜷻𜷼
• Big human sprite 𜷦𜷧𜷨𜷩𜷪𜷫𜷬𜷭𜷮𜷯

Straight-up emoji

• Planes 𜷸𜷹𜷺

There are also the non-legacy ✈🛧 that are supposed to be a part of the set, so they will have to look consistent.

Big chess pieces

• 𜲺𜲻𜲼𜲽𜲾𜲿𜳀𜳁𜳂𜳃𜳄𜳅𜳆𜳇𜳈𜳉𜳊𜳋𜳌𜳍𜳎𜳏𜳐𜳑

This guy

• Standing knight

𜳒𜳓
𜳔𜳕

Literally the only usage I've seen is as an icon for a game producer for the Sharp MZ console.

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Visualization in FairfaxHD:

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I'm just putting this here because I'll probably run out of things that I can implement soon. I'll need help for the rest.

[be5invis]

Some of them may worth just drawing them using any vector graphics software then import them...