Re: Proposal for 2 Byte Unicode implementation in gcc and glibc

[Markus Kuhn]

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote on 2000-08-08 16:24 UTC:
> Although characters currently proposed outside 16 bits are not
> common, [...]

I disagree. Mathematical typesetting for instance will make very
intensive use of Plane 1 characters, and it is essential to treat them
as first-class citizens. What you write in TeX today as $v$ will
tomorrow be MATH ITALIC LATIN LOWERCASE LETTER V in Plane 1.

See:

http://www.ams.org/STIX/
http://www.ams.org/STIX/glyphs/proposal/newsub/utc/99195-rev1.htm

Markus

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