Re: Superscript comma

From: Leo Broukhis (leob@mailcom.com)
Date: Tue Nov 17 2009 - 01:32:15 CST

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    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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