Subscripts and superscripts
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jk at koremail.com
Mon Aug 2 09:31:23 CDT 2021
Proven of course by the fact that several superscript letters are to be
added in Unicode 14, including superscript capital Q.
On 2021-08-02 21:28, Hans Åberg via Unicode wrote:
>> On 2 Aug 2021, at 07:09, Doug Ewell via Unicode
>> <unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:
>>
>> Although the Unicode Technical Committee has stated many, many times
>> that additional superscript and subscript letters will not be encoded,
>> except to support natural-language orthographies and phonetic
>> notation, it’s impossible to predict whether that principle will be
>> upheld forever. We do have things in Unicode today that were once "no,
>> not ever" and some that appeared as a Notice of Non-Approval.
>
> A factor might be what modern text-only renderers might be able to
> handle. Today, the norm is a display where there ought to be no
> problem with subscripts and superscripts even when nested.
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