From: Leo Broukhis (leob@mailcom.com)
Date: Tue Nov 17 2009 - 01:32:15 CST
You may also want to contact IUPAC and ask if they would like to allow
U+207B SUPERSCRIPT MINUS as an acceptable alternative to a comma in
plain text Unicode representations of these chemical names.
Leo
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Daniel Bonniot <dbonniot@chemaxon.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The current unicode standards contains some superscript punctuation
> and mathematical symbols, in
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2070.pdf . However, it does not
> contain "SUPERSCRIPT COMMA". This would be useful for representing
> some technical text, for instance some chemical names. See this page:
> http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/vonBaeyer/vb6.html the text starting
> with '2.2.1.0' below the first picture. For the '2,6' part, the numbers
> can be displayed as superscript numbers, but not the coma. As far as I
> know this would be the only character missing to properly represent
> all chemical names (which is part of my work).
>
> Did I miss a correct way to represent this text? Or is there a chance
> superscript comma could be added to a future version?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Daniel Bonniot
>
>
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