Southern hemisphere

[edbritton]

Just a quick note, the moon's first and last quarters are the other way around in the Southern Hemisphere.

[warpling]

Wow! Never thought about that. Does slack handle this flip?

[warpling]

…or Github?

[nick-f]

Southern Hemisphere inhabitant, checking in.

I just checked and Github and Slack do not appear to take it into account.

(Side note: I did find an interesting read on the phases of the moon while looking into this. Worth checking out if that kind of thing interests you. 👌)

Couple of options:

1. Ignore it (because that's what the Unicode consortium did).

2. Aliases are created. The names are already long as is, so maybe add _sh as a suffix?

replace	with
:last_quarter_moon_sh:	🌓
:first_quarter_moon_sh:	🌗

Happy to create a pull request to fix this up, if needed.

[warpling]

Thanks for looking into this! (extremely elucidating gif you found there too)
Well Northern-centric standards bodies be damned. This could actually be a request you could submit to Unicode if you wanted to try!

_sh as a suffix seems really hard to grok, but then again anyone typing that whole string out is hardcore about getting their lunar emoji correct. Would _southern be more confusing?

[nick-f]

The Southern Hemisphere deals with it a lot. ("Coming this summer" makes things seem an extra six months away when they're not 😛)

_southern sounds like it could work. Or maybe _southern_hem would provide a little extra context to make it less ambiguous?

[warpling]

My main concern is people downloading this list in the future for their own projects and not understanding what it means. I tend to vote for verbosity but these are long… is _shemi or _s_hemi strange?

[nick-f]

Of those suggestions, _s_hemi makes the most sense to me.

There aren't too many words that begin with hemi in the first place, let alone ones that would be used regularly.

Of all the ideas so far, I like _s_hemi the most, so that has my vote.

[warpling]

Hmm so…

• _s_hemi
• _southern_hemisphere

Would the first be clearer if we included _n_hemi? Am I overthinking this? 😛