As is "Mgr" for Monseigneur in French ("Mgr" without
superscripts makes little sense, and if "Mr" is sometimes found as an
abbreviation for "Monsieur", its standard abbreviation is "M.", and its
plural "Messieurs" is noted "MM" without any abbreviation dot or
superscript, but normally never as
Organic chemistry would need sub/sup
alpha, beta and gamma (perhaps others).
A./
On 10/31/2018 3:35 PM, Piotr Karocki
via Unicode wrote:
We don't know whether the abbreviation "Mr", spelled exactly this way,
already
On 01/11/2018 at 00:41, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
>
> On 2018/11/01 03:10, Marcel Schneider via Unicode wrote:
> > On 31/10/2018 at 17:27, Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
>
> >> When one does question the Académie about the fact, this is their
> >> reply:
> >>
> >> Le fait de placer en exposant
On 10/31/2018 3:37 PM, Marcel Schneider
via Unicode wrote:
On 31/10/2018 19:42, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
On 10/31/2018 11:10 AM, Marcel Schneider via Unicode wrote:
which, if my understanding of
On 2018/11/01 03:10, Marcel Schneider via Unicode wrote:
> On 31/10/2018 at 17:27, Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
>> When one does question the Académie about the fact, this is their
>> reply:
>>
>> Le fait de placer en exposant ces mentions est de convention
>> typographique ; il convient
On 10/31/2018 4:11 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 03:32:09PM -0700, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
On 10/31/2018 9:03 AM, Khaled Hosny via Unicode wrote:
A while I was localizing some application to Arabic and the developer
“helpfully” used m² for square meter, but
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 03:32:09PM -0700, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
> On 10/31/2018 9:03 AM, Khaled Hosny via Unicode wrote:
>
> A while I was localizing some application to Arabic and the developer
> “helpfully” used m² for square meter, but that does not work for Arabic
>
>We don't know whether the abbreviation "Mr", spelled exactly this way,
>already existed in that time and in that geographical area.
>
>You still don't see the difference in the meaning?
Maybe another example, from chemistry:
14C = isotope of carbon (carbon 14)
14C = 14 units of carbon (mole,
Ken Whistler wrote,
> Trying to represent all aspects of text in manuscripts,
> including handwriting conventions, as plain text is
> hopeless. There is no principled line to draw there
> before you get into arbitrary calligraphic conventions.
Very much agree. The post card in question is in
On 31/10/2018 19:42, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
>
> On 10/31/2018 11:10 AM, Marcel Schneider via Unicode wrote:
> >
> > > which, if my understanding of "convient" is correct, carefully does
> > > [not] quite say that it is *wrong* not to superscript, but that one should
> > > superscript
On 31/10/18 at 23:05, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
[…]
> > Sad that Arabic ² and ³ are still missing.
>
> How about all the other sets of native digits?
The missing ones are hopefully already on the roadmap.
Or do you refer to the missing ² and ³ in all other native digits?
Obviously they
On 31/10/2018 at 17:27, Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
>
> On 2018-10-31, Marcel Schneider via Unicode wrote:
>
> > Preformatted Unicode superscript small letters are meeting the French
> > superscript
> > requirement, that is found in:
> >
On Wed, Oct 31 2018 at 9:38 GMT, Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
> On 2018-10-31, Janusz S. =?utf-8?Q?Bie=C5=84?= via Unicode
> wrote:
[...]
>> The relevant fragment of the postcard in a loose translation is
>>
>> Use the following address: ...
>> is the abbreviation of
On Wed, Oct 31 2018 at 9:38 GMT, Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
> On 2018-10-31, Janusz S. =?utf-8?Q?Bie=C5=84?= via Unicode
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 29 2018 at 12:20 -0700, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
>
> [ as did I in private mail ]
>
>>> The abbreviation in the postcard, rendered in
On 31/10/2018 at 17:03, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>
> A while I was localizing some application to Arabic and the developer
> “helpfully” used m² for square meter, but that does not work for Arabic
> because there is no superscript ٢ in Unicode, so I had to contact the
> developer and ask for markup to
On 2018-10-31, Marcel Schneider via Unicode wrote:
> Preformatted Unicode superscript small letters are meeting the French
> superscript
> requirement, that is found in:
> http://www.academie-francaise.fr/abreviations-des-adjectifs-numeraux
> (in French). This brief article focuses on the
On 31/10/2018 at 11:21, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
>
> On 10/31/2018 2:38 AM, Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
>
> > You could use the various hacks
> > you've discussed, with modifier letters; but that is not "encoding",
> > that is "abusing Unicode to do markup". At least, that's the
Thank you for your feedback.
On 30/10/2018 at 22:52, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > First, ARABIC LETTER SUPERSCRIPT ALEPH U+0671.
> > But it is a vowel sign. Many letters put above are called superscript
> > when explaining in English.
>
> As you say, this is a vowel sign not a superscript letter,
Responding to Julian Bradfield,
U+1D49 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL E
General Category: Letter, Modifier
Decomposition Type
Mapping: U+0065
It's a spacing superscript Latin lower case "E". It's a letter. People
spell with letters.
"One of the goals of the Consortium is to preserve humanity's
On 10/31/2018 2:38 AM, Julian Bradfield
via Unicode wrote:
You could use the various hacks
you've discussed, with modifier letters; but that is not "encoding",
that is "abusing Unicode to do markup". At least, that's the view I
take!
+1
In general, I
On 2018-10-31, Janusz S. =?utf-8?Q?Bie=C5=84?= via Unicode
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29 2018 at 12:20 -0700, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
[ as did I in private mail ]
>> The abbreviation in the postcard, rendered in
>> plain text, is "Mr".
>
> The relevant fragment of the postcard in a loose
On 2018/10/31 03:51, Marcel Schneider via Unicode wrote:
> On 30/10/2018 at 18:59, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
>>
>> Marcel Schneider wrote:
>>
>>> This use case is different from the use case that led to submit
>>> the L2/18-206 proposal, cited by Dr Ewell on 29/10/2018 at 20:29:
>>
>> I guess
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