Position of the registered sign

[Mark E. Shoulson]

On 9/18/24 09:56, Jukka K. Korpela via Unicode wrote:
> Ivan Panchenko wrote via Unicode (unicode at corp.unicode.org) :
>
>> The registered sign (®, U+00AE) is already shown in superscript in some typefaces and on the baseline in others.
> The vertical position and the size (relative to font size) indeed varies.
>
> ....
>> How about standardizing the position?

Wouldn't belatedly making a "standard" of something that's been around 
so long also create a lot of hassle for font designers, etc?  All of a 
sudden, fonts that have been perfectly conformant for decades suddenly 
are non-conformant, and people have to come out with new versions.  Or 
what is FAR more likely, nobody cares and nobody notices and everyone 
leaves the fonts alone, in which case what has been accomplished?  We'd 
have successfully declared some set of fonts "non-conformant", but on 
the plus side... um. On the plus side, what?

~mark