Peter Kirk said: > According to the Roadmap, the Phonetic Extensions block can already be > extended to cover 1D80-1DBF. I would suggest reserving this extension > block for subscript letters, which gives space for upper and lower case > subscript basic Latin alphabets and some extra characters.
Too late for that already. 1D80-1DBF is already chockablock with phonetic symbols of far better claim to the space than subscript letters. See: http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html By the way, as an aside, whenever anyone on this list suggests that such-and-such should go in such-and-such a place in Unicode, it behooves you to check the book and then *also* check the pipeline page. There are already nearly a couple of thousand characters preliminarily encoded past the Unicode 4.0 repertoire, so don't expect that any particular position open in Unicode 4.0 is available for encoding your favorite proposal. > There is > still a question of where subscript Greek letters might go; there is > just space for a lower case Greek alphabet in the Greek and Coptic > block, but this is not contiguous. > > Alternatively, let's leave all subscripting to markup. Hear, hear! --Ken
