At 19:05 +0200 2002-07-31, Marco Cimarosti wrote: >Unicode is not for encoding typographical effects such as superscripts or >subscripts (the sups and subs in area U+2070..U+208E are part of a sort of >"archaeological area" of Unicode, which is called Compatibility Characters).
Not quite. Some superscripts and subscripts used in phonetic transcriptions are actual letters needed in plain text. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com