Thanks, Brian. I saw all those. I'm trying to adhere (broadly) to the SI standard (Système international d'unités). This prescribes "solidus" (slash, to you and me) as an alternative to superscript "-1".
Which is what I'm using at the moment. But I thought I'd guild the lily, seeing as I already need Unicode for pi, mu, euro, gb-pound, us-cent, Ohm, Ångstrom, etc, etc (the basic app being strictly ascii). It just amazes me that we can have characters from Ogham and the Phaistos Disk, not to say Shavian, Tengwar and Klingon, and yet it appears not to have occurred to the scientific community to ask for the superscript "-1" so heavily used in SI-units. (Well, maybe -2 and -3 also). Ian On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Brian Schott <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian, > > If you search "negative" in the unicode charts you get a lot of > circled black background numbers which are called negative ... . Does > this suggest an alternative? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
