From: Jill.Ramonsky@Aculab.com
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 12:46:47 EDT
I'm reasonably sure that this question reflects my own ignorance, rather
than some problem with the standard, but nonetheless, I am confused.
For a start, we have the letters A to Z starting at 000041.
Then we have the circled forms starting at 0024B6.
Then we have the fullwidth forms starting at 00FF21.
Now we have mathematical bold forms starting at 01D400,
mathematical italic forms starting at 1D434,
mathematical bold italic forms starting at 1D468
mathematical script forms starting at 1D49C,
mathematical bold script forms starting at 1D4D0,
mathematical fraktur forms starting at 1D504,
mathematical double-struck forms starting at 1D538,
...I could go on, but you get the idea.
Oh yes, and tag forms starting at 0E0041. I have _no_ idea what these are
for.
Aren't these differences that could be better managed by, say, clicking on
the BOLD button in a GUI environment. What I mean is, aren't these just font
and style differences? Same goes for superscript and subscript, but I see
those all over the place. Why do we need all these duplicates?
And that's not to mention my confusion between tilde operator (00223C) and
tilde (00007E), and similar. Are we expecting future C programmers, for
example, to use tilde operator instead of tilde to mean ones-complement?
Forgive me if this question is dumb, but it's kinda hard to see the point of
all that duplication.
Jill.
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