> A appropriate place for ∗ being used is a telephone keyboard and so it
> ideally probably wants to have the same kind of weight and apparent size
> as 0-9 and #. I would probably expect to find ∗ aligned with # (which is
> further away from the baseline than the - hyphen.
∗ U+2217 is the proper mathematical symbol (its Unicode category is "Symbol, Math"). It would make more sense to have it aligned with other mathematical symbols.
> A appropriate place for ∗ being used is a telephone keyboard and so it
> ideally probably wants to have the same kind of weight and apparent size
> as 0-9 and #. I would probably expect to find ∗ aligned with # (which is
> further away from the baseline than the - hyphen.
∗ U+2217 is the proper mathematical symbol (its Unicode category is "Symbol, Math"). It would make more sense to have it aligned with other mathematical symbols.