Gaps in Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols

Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Thu Mar 10 14:49:17 CST 2016


Andrew West replied to Oren Watson:

>> Is there a standard denoting which characters are part of each
>> "mathematical variable alphabet"? There is a table on Wikipedia [...]
>
> Yes, the code charts in the Unicode Standard:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D400.pdf
>
> The annotation for each reserved code point refers to the character
> that logically belongs there.

NamesList.txt also has this information, and unlike the others, it's
both official and machine-readable:

1D505   MATHEMATICAL FRAKTUR CAPITAL B
        # <font> 0042 latin capital letter b
1D506   <reserved>
        x (black-letter capital c - 212D)

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