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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/15/2024 1:19 PM, Sławomir Osipiuk
via Unicode wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> I always assumed that ® should appear on the baseline, as should ©.</pre>
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<p><font face="Candara">In the mail client I am using to view these
messages, the monospaced font has a superscript form while the
variable width font has what might be called a "large"
superscript form, or a "raised" form.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">The latter might well be intended to
represent a bit of a compromise, but it has the advantage that
it makes the symbol more readable on screen. The superscript
form in the monospaced font could almost be a circled dot or
star when viewed at the default font size and I could not tell
whether an R or P is intended.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">The issue is that for cases where a larger
font is used, that could become too prominent. The circled R,
after all, is used like an annotation, and not as an
abbreviation that may stand in for the word itself in the
sentence as in many uses of the copyright symbol.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">The annotation aspect is what makes me think
that fonts that show the circled R on the baseline have got it
wrong.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">A./<br>
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