Ar 10:13 -0700 1998-10-09, scr�obh Rick McGowan:
>Frank wrote...
>
>> The reason these need to be encoded separately from feminine/masculine
>> ordinals are their size
>
>Ah, I figured so. In this case, they should just be unified with the
>existing codes.
>
>> Since terminal emulators and data analyzers use fixed-pitch fonts, we can't
>> just switch to another point size to display these characters, since
>> that will wreck the matrix arrangement of the screen.
Everson Mono is fixed-pitch font that includes masculine and feminine
ordinal indicators taking up the same size cell as everything else.
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