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Topic: Use of ★ glyph in artist/titles

I noticed recently that the group A★Teens is now done with a star glyph.

Would ★NSync also be a candidate for this?  Currently in MusicBrainz as *NSync

It is definitely a star on all their album covers...

http://www.amazon.com/N-Sync/e/B000AP80V6/

2 Reply by ym (edited by ym 2012-05-05 16:24:00)

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Re: Use of ★ glyph in artist/titles

that edit is here: http://musicbrainz.org/edit/17037841
hard decision...
IMO, since ★ is classified as a "block element" (http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl) but not a spacing modifier, I don't think it is correct to use such a character in A-Teens, but maybe can be used in NSync.

edit: sorry "spacing modifier" is a wrong term. I meant separator.

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Re: Use of ★ glyph in artist/titles

btw the I meant (U+2605    ★    e2 98 85    BLACK STAR) and not (U+22C6    ⋆    e2 8b 86    STAR OPERATOR)

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Re: Use of ★ glyph in artist/titles

Cheezmo wrote:

Would ★NSync also be a candidate for this?  Currently in MusicBrainz as *NSync

No, actually it's just as likely a bolded * on their own album covers. A star glyph is center aligned and similar size to other characters - all covers except No Strings Attached clearly have an smaller star or asterisk-like character.

Their (crappy) official website uses a * as well.

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Re: Use of ★ glyph in artist/titles

Such edits should show the scans BTW.

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