Encoding of old compatibility characters

Philippe Verdy verdy_p at wanadoo.fr
Tue Mar 28 04:33:41 CDT 2017


Ideally a smart text renderer could as well display that glyph with a
leading multiplication sign (a mathematical middle dot) and implicitly
convert the following digits (and sign) as real superscript/exponent (using
contextual substitution/positioning like for Eastern Arabic/Urdu), without
necessarily writing the 10 base with smaller digits.
Without it, people will want to use 20⏨ to mean it is the decimal number
twenty and not hexadecimal number thirty two.

2017-03-28 11:18 GMT+02:00 Frédéric Grosshans <frederic.grosshans at gmail.com>
:

> Le 28/03/2017 à 02:22, Mark E. Shoulson a écrit :
>
>> Aw, but ⏨ is awesome!  It's much cooler-looking and more visually
>> understandable than "e" for exponent notation.  In some code I've been
>> playing around with I support it as a valid alternative to "e".
>>
>
> I Agree 1⏨3 times with you on this !
>
>     Frédéric
>
>
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