Michael Everson wrote:
> There is no reason the Chinese or anyone else cannot write
> this with LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O and SUBSCRIPT TWO.
I think there is a misunderstanding, probably on my side.
In his Spanish version, Erik claimed that the chemical elements were missing
"en el contexto de los caracteres chinos".
So I understood that he was talking about the specialized ideographs needed
to write the *names* of chemical elements in Chinese, and I was explaining
that they are not missing, just buried somewhere in the huge CJK Unified
Ideographs section.
But if Erik was talking about the international symbols like "O", "H", "Au",
etc. then I fully agree that these are simply sequences of *ordinary* Latin
letters, and that there is *absolutely* *no* *need* of having them as
separate entries.
(Unicode is already so polluted with duplicates of Latin letters:
"letter-like symbols", "enclosed alphanumerics", "roman numerals", "squared
combinations", "full-width letters", "language tagging letters", and now
also the typographic catalogue of the faculty of mathematics :-)
_ Marco
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