Re: (SC2WG2.609) New contribution N2705

[Peter Kirk]

On 17/02/2004 10:15, Michael Everson wrote:

A new contribution:

N2705

http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2705

Proposal to encode five Indo-Europeanist phonetic characters in the UCS

Deborah Anderson & Michael Everson

2004-02-03

These subscript letters and subscript '/' really don't look like plain 
text to me. The examples quoted, e.g.

*hxC(V)- ~ *shxC(V)- [the x's to be subscripted]

are more like mathematical formulae than text. While I can see argument 
for encoding such things as plain text, the argument would apply just as 
strongly to use of subscripts in mathematical formulae.

I would suggest that consideration is given to an extension of the 
Unicode Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block to include a full range 
of subscript letters etc, and that such letters be used for applications 
such as this one. If such a proposal is considered unacceptable because 
it goes beyond what is plain text, then so should this proposal be.

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