Re: Devanagari and Subscript and Superscript

From: srivas sinnathurai <sisrivas_at_blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:00:16 +0000 (GMT)

Does the standard support the use of diacritics in plain text format, when used
with all and any complex scripts?

Regards

Sinnathurai

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> On 15 December 2015 at 17:46 Doug Ewell <doug_at_ewellic.org> wrote:
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> Plug Gulp wrote:
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> > It will help if Unicode standard itself intrinsically supports
> > generalised subscript/superscript text.
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> This falls outside the scope of "plain text" as defined by Unicode, in
> much the same way as bold and italic styles and colors and font faces
> and sizes.
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> There are several rich-text formats besides HTML that support arbitrary
> subscript and superscript text. PDF and Word leap to mind.
>
> --
> Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸
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