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[Rebecca Bettencourt]

The pipeline also includes lowercase q.

You're not going to convince the UTC to encode superscript SXYZ unless you
find evidence of them being used as part of a phonetic transcription
system. That's the only use case that has gotten superscripts and
subscripts accepted in recent years; all other proposals have been
summarily dismissed.

-- Rebecca Bettencourt


On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 5:59 AM Adam Borowski via Unicode <
unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:04:21AM +0000, r12a via Unicode wrote:
> > Jukka K. Korpela via Unicode wrote on 22/03/2021 08:53:
> > > Unicode hasn’t got a repertoire of superscript Latin letters even
> though
> > > they are often used as semantically different from normal letters; it
> only
> > > has some of such letters, apparently meant for special uses only (like
> > > phonetic symbols).
>
> > fwiw, i was curious enough to check it out, and Unicode has the full
> ASCII
> > lower-case alphabet except for q available as superscripted letters.
> >
> > ᵃᵇᶜᵈᵉᶠᵍʰⁱʲᵏˡᵐⁿᵒᵖqʳˢᵗᵘᵛʷˣʸᶻ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹
>
> And for uppercase:
> ᴬᴮCᴰᴱFᴳᴴᴵᴶᴷᴸᴹᴺᴼᴾQᴿSᵀᵁⱽᵂXYZ
> plus look-alikes: ᒼᕁᙆ
>
> The pipeline already includes CFQ.
>
> Thus, what about adding the stragglers, ie, qSXYZ ?
>
>
> On the other hand, subscript is nowhere close:
> ₐbcdₑfgₕᵢⱼₖₗₘₙₒₚqᵣₛₜᵤᵥwₓyz
> with no capitals.
>
>
> Meow!
> --
> ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Latin:   meow 4 characters, 4 columns,  4 bytes
> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Greek:   μεου 4 characters, 4 columns,  8 bytes
> ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Runes:   ᛗᛖᛟᚹ 4 characters, 4 columns, 12 bytes
> ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Chinese: 喵   1 character,  2 columns,  3 bytes <-- best!
>
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