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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/15/2024 9:21 AM, Andreas Prilop
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">Ivan Panchenko wrote:
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">There is also the (German) circled Wz
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The circled Wz was only used in the old West German Duden.
Since re-unification, only circled R has been used in the unified Duden.
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">even though the symbol was apparently just a Duden idiosyncrasy
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I call it Deutschtümelei.
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<p><font face="Candara">No matter what you call it, for a universal
character encoding you will have to answer the question whether
a symbol used in a seminal publication needs to be encoded for
the sake of being able to correctly archive it without hacks
like using private fonts or images.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">The answer to the question rests on issues
whether the publication is important enough to warrant very high
fidelity or whether there's a critical significance to having
that symbol over any fallback representation. <br>
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<p><font face="Candara">In this case, the "owners" of the work are
still around and active, so that means we don't need to make
decisions for them.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">But imagine for a moment you were
researching "Deutschtümelei" and all digital archives of those
older versions had replaced the "idiosyncratic symbol" with the
semantically equivalent circled R. Is that particular
scholarship scenario interesting enough to warrant adding this
as a historical symbol?<br>
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I'm not answering this question, but we are contemplating
support for early mathematical notations, some of them fairly
specific to particular mathematicians or even publishers of
their work.<br>
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There's no hard lines to be found here, and for edge cases the
decisions can seem arbitrary. But in general, this is a key part
in how you approach any attempt at making decisions for such
edge cases.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">A./<br>
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