Power off symbol

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Hi,

I’m trying to neaten up my notifications. I have a notification which tells me when I’m using too much power and it contains some notification actions to turn off various things. I’m trying to keep the action titles short so that they fit without cropping the text with …

Unfortunately it seems like Android doesn’t support the unicode power symbols yet, so no ⏻ ⏼ ⭘ ⏽ ⏾ :frowning_face: (despite attempts for over 10 years now!!! wtf News – Unicode Power Symbol)

Can anyone suggest a way I can encode the phrase “Turn off heat pump”? “⏻HP” was my preference but it doesn’t render the power symbol.

Thanks

PS Other suggestions, like the way the iOS notifications can include an icon, are also welcome

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have you tried an emoji ? another option you have is changing the icon of the notification itself.

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Yes, but I haven’t found a suitable emoji. ⏻ is exactly the emoji I want!

Yes that’s a good thought. I have other notifications where there are distinct actions, though.

Thanks!

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FWIW that symbol also does not render on my windows laptop either, an emoji would be best because those are sorta standardized to some extent across platforms. I am not sure if the app can do anything for rendering it but feel free to submit an issue with all relevant details and the team can look into it

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Not sure if that will fit your needs, but you can use unicode to render an emoji inside the action “title”, not all will work though, or look exactly the same, depending on version/vendor…

actions:
  - action: "1"
    title: "\u2B55 HP1"
  - action: "2"
    title: "\u23F9 HP2"
  - action: "3"
    title: "\u2B58 HP3"

test-notif
test-notif1017×438 77.8 KB

Now onto the search for unicorns… codes! :smile:
https://emojipedia.org/hollow-red-circle#technical
https://emojipedia.org/stop-button#technical
https://emojipedia.org/medium-small-white-circle#technical
https://emojipedia.org/gear#technical
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2B58

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