How would you symbolise 'change' ?

Question

Because of a space-issue I have to make 'single-character-links' for crud actions:

In characters I would symbolise:
'delete' with character x
'add' with +
…
How would you symbolise 'change' ?

Answer 1

How about the delta character? Δ
Or, what about the +/- character ? ±

Answer 2

^

perhaps to symbolize "UPdate"?

Answer 3

Why not just use standard diff indicators:

add: +

remove: -

change: !

...although when you say "links," I'm guessing you mean HTML hyperlinks? Who is the target audience? If it's non-programmers, then change should probably be 'c', for 'c'hange.

Answer 4

* could also mark "change"

Answer 5

Maybe the ± or the ~ could work? ± because change could be symbolized as "Remove old, add new".

Or, ask the Unicode Consortium to add a Barack Obama symbol to the standard. (Sorry, could not resist given the Title)

Answer 6

Do you have enough space for small icons? I'd squeeze those in if possible.

Answer 7

I would avoid anything that has an existing mathematical or logical meaning (+, -, !, etc.). It's not clear hat change you mean, but to me the old fashioned ' means change like x, x', etc. (though it could be interpreted as derivation).

Answer 8

If you're limited to ASCII, I would use ">" since it denotes forward movement. In Unicode, there's a plethora of symbols you could choose from (I always wanted to use the word, plethora :-).

Answer 9

How about:

¢

Answer 10

How about ✍ (U+270D) or ✎ (U+270E).

Answer 11

the * sign is used in some software (VS, SSMS ...) to mark a document that has been changed, but not saved ... I also like the Δ, but that depends what kinda (=how mathematically thinking) ppl use the software

so speaking in terms of "expected behaviour" I'd go also for * like VonC already posted.

(1st thing I thought of reading ur headline was a little Obama Icon gg)

Answer 12

IMHO, three dots is a good indicator for edit/change commands.
Like this :

...

EDIT : I just realized you asked for a single character. But won't delete this since you might like it.

Answer 13

Wow, did none of you you pay attention in the last election the symbol for change is O. As in Obama?

I'm sorry I tried to resist. But seriously if you look up symbol for change in google you get something like this Ұ.