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> Should those 'a's have different Unicode code points? Unicode does have separate code points for mathematical symbols. See for instance U+1D44E MATHEMATICAL
by avian 9y ago
> Should those 'a's have different Unicode code points?
Unicode does have separate code points for mathematical symbols. See for instance U+1D44E MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL A. They see little use in practice though, apart from people using them for funky fonts on Reddit and such.
- WalterBright 9y agoI didn't know that, thanks for the info. But the use of a) and b) remains, as does ascii art, [a] for footnotes, it's just endless.
- comex 9y ago> But the use of a) and b) remains, as does ascii art, [a] for footnotes, it's just endless. You mean like ⒜ or ⓐ or ᵃ? Not to be confused with any of ªａ𝐚𝑎𝒂𝒶𝓪𝔞𝕒𝖆𝖺𝗮𝘢𝙖𝚊ₐ. Unicode has a whole lot of stuff that nobody uses… There's also a separate Cyrillic а.
- khaled 9y agoI’ve seen all of these used quite extensively. It depends on what kind of fields you are familiar with.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- khaled 9y agoThey are used by OpenType math fonts and systems that use them (e.g. the new equation editor in Word from 2007 on wards, and Unicode-capable TeX systems with the `unicode-math` package).