On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:32:12 +0000, Richard Wordingham wrote: […] > The truly straight Unicode approach in HTML is to use 19⁄45. > Just entering those 5 characters into a text entry box in Firefox gave > me a properly formatted vulgar fraction. That is how vulgar fractions > are supposed to work. Unfortunately, one may need to avoid 'exciting > new fonts' in favour of those with a large, working repertoire.
A new “Fraction Slash and Fonts” thread in the BÉPO community has brought up that this works mainly with new and ambitious fonts: • Carlito • Fira Sans • Linux Biolinum • Linux Libertine • Roboto • Source Sans Pro • Source Serif Pro • Ubuntu By contrast, the typefaces not supporting U+2044 correctly include: - FreeSans - FreeSerif - Open Sans - DejàVu - Droid - Liberation - TeX Gyre BTW, the Times New Roman font that the Mailing List Archives specify, belongs to this latter category, so that the fractions with U+2044 and normal size digits display in fallback mode. Software support is mainly found in open projects as we have seen: • HarfBuzz, and its users: • LibreOffice • Firefox • Chrome In the meantime, Microsoft products not supporting U+2044 correctly include: - DirectWrite - Internet Explorer including its last version 11 ➔ Does anybody know why Microsoft is reluctant in supporting U+2044? ➔ And why on the other hand, the widespread and popular way of writing fractions as <superscript>U+2044<subscript> sequences is discouraged and even ridiculized? Regards, Marcel
