May be we could add new resources in the CLDR for specifying the prefered characters used by the four basic maths operators (normally we already have the specifiation for the uniary plus and minus signs, but I'm not sure that this implies their use for noting the binary operators used in additions and substractions).
Note that several characters could be listed, the first one being the preferred one, others being also possible when they don't create confusions, for usual simple mathematical notations. For scientific papers however these resources will not be used : each operator uses the international conventions (if there's no prior définition) and have very precise glyphs that must be consistent within each document or even between collections of related documents : if the symbols need to be differentiated (e.g. a middle dot, an asterisk, an x-like symbol centered on the mathematical line, they have their own initial definition in the document or in an explicit reference, to disambiguate things). Those scientific papers however are most often composed with TeX (or some visual formula editors which do not produce plain text) and not initially composed using the UCS encoding. 2012/7/10 Philippe Verdy <[email protected]>: > 2012/7/10 Asmus Freytag <[email protected]>: >> Encoding of new characters in not required to address the issue. > > I agree. But annotations may help (these annotations should however be > narrowed by language where they are common, otherwise they will cause > other confusions...)
