On 2024-09-19 7:37 AM, Giacomo Catenazzi via Unicode wrote:
Note: the use in logos and labels is different: it is part of design, and outside Unicode scope. The interesting cases are about using normal text and the registered mark.
Yes. The RCA Victor label scan linked earlier shows the symbol in a line of text. The response was that there was no need to superscript it in that case. So the EMI label scan link was sent to illustrate that the symbol *looks* to be superscripted when it is used to annotate a logo. Logos and layout are out of scope indeed.
For normal text, as far as I can tell, the default fonts installed with Windows 98 use the same metrics for both © and ® with the exception of Lucida Console. Lucida Console does show the ® symbol superscripted and displays the copyright symbol normally. The Haettenschweiler font shows both © and ® as superscripted. So it seems likely that any Windows computer generated text from that era would show "®" at a normal size unless the Lucida Console or Haettenschweiler fonts were involved.
