Position of the registered sign

[Ivan Panchenko]

James Kass via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org>:
> Jefferson Airplane (not the one by Queen).  The RCA Victor label has a
> line of text running around the bottom.  In that line of text, the
> symbol "®" is on the baseline.  Had it been superscripted, it would look
> funny.  But it would not change the semantic.

It would look funny precisely because of the semantics. In that case,
the sign is not just attached to a trademark but simply on a line of
text which itself is already an annotation, so there is no reason for
superscripting the circled R, of course.

> (Record labels frequently use the symbol ℗ and sometimes use the symbols
> © and ®.  Generally these symbols are similarly sized and on the baseline.)

(My position was that U+00AE should be displayed on the baseline.)