John W. Kennedy wrote:
Just as with quotation marks, Unicode is trying to undo confusion introduced by cost-saving measures applied to Victorian typewriters. (I have seen people -- usually in their late 50's or older -- who will, if not stopped, use lower-case "L" instead of the digit "one" and sometimes even upper-case "O" instead of digit "zero".)
Oh man, that takes me back! I learned how to type back in the '70s on an old manual typewriter. I had forgotten how it didn't have those keys! I can also remember forming an exclamation mark with an apostrophe, back-space, and period. And of course, no ~`[]{}<>\ or |.
And Dan Rather can tell you about the lack of any kind of real super- or sub-scripting back then, too.
Rod
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