At 09:11 PM 6/9/2004, Ernest Cline wrote:
> [Original Message] > From: Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Practice your tongue-twisting. > > Proposal to add Bantu phonetic click characters to the UCS > http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/n2790-clicks.pdf
Why wouldn't U+1D4AC MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT CAPITAL Q work for the script capital Q? At the very least I feel that should be explained.
Good point. After all we don't distinguish between superscript two used for the square or in linguistic notation, (except of course that in true mathematical documents one would use formatting for the superscript).
The mathematical script capital Q has no formal case mapping to mathematical script small q as case transformation would normally change the meaning of a mathematical text. Neither does the proposed character, so this disunification needs to have a rationale.
From the recent sets of phonetic extensions it can be seen that linguists are almost as inventive as mathematicians in pressing into service any odd piece of metal found in their publishers' type catalogues. Except that they tend to focus on things that look more or less like letters, whereas it's 'anything goes' for mathematicians.
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