Re: sub and superscripts

From: Chris Jacobs (chris.jacobs@freeler.nl)
Date: Fri Jul 01 2005 - 13:47:44 CDT

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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Gregg Reynolds" <unicode@arabink.com>
    To: "'Unicode'" <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 6:34 PM
    Subject: sub and superscripts

    > Hi,
    >
    > For programming language design it would be nice to have the entire
    > Latin (ascii) and Greek repertoire available as subscript and
    > superscript characters. So for example, using ^ to indicate superscript
    > and _ to indicate subscript,
    >
    > i^foobar = i to the foobar power
    > i_foobar = index foobar places into the array i

    Array indices in programming languages can be nested:

    i_foo_bar = the foo_barth place in array i

    > Any chance of this happening?

    No chance, for this an infinite number of chars would needed to be added to
    unicode.

    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > gregg
    >
    >

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