From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2004 - 18:36:54 EST
At 15:08 -0800 2004-02-17, Peter Kirk wrote:
>My point here is that if we once start on encoding subscript letters
>used in specialist scientific notation, there is no easy place to
>stop.
We have so far encoded what people have been using.
>Either we need to accept the principle that subscripts are encodable
>and set aside space for a whole alphabet of them (and an upper case
>alphabet and a Greek alphabet as well, plus punctuation); or else we
>need to say from the start that these things are not plain text and
>should not be encoded in Unicode.
Or we do what we have done so far. Encode what people have been using.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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