At 07:52 AM 1/21/2003, Raymond Mercier wrote:
In Classical Greek scientific texts the fraction 'one half' is represented very commonly by a symbol which looks a bit like 'less than', or like 'angle' U+2220, but followed by a prime. Is there no place for this in the Unicode scheme of things ?Have you checked the TLG proposals for additions to Unicode for these characters? They're quite extensive (a bit too extensive in parts, e.g. the fraktur characters for apparatus critici that are already supported in Plane 1, but these things will get sorted out as the proposal progress). See http://www.tlg.uci.edu/Uni.prop.html.
Other symbols are also found for common fractions, apart from the general usage where a prime is added to indicate the reciprocal.
I have been converting some TLG* files to Unicode, and I notice that even in the original TLG file the symbol is just replaced by a space. This makes a nonsense of Ptolemy's geographical coordinates.
John Hudson
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