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Accidentary math symbols. Sometimes there is semantic difference between π, π¦, π, m which will be lost in plaintext rendition of a formula. Yeah, you'd bette
by ilammy 7y ago
Accidentary math symbols. Sometimes there is semantic difference between π, π¦, π, m which will be lost in plaintext rendition of a formula. Yeah, you'd better be off with TeX for this specific purpose, but that's a valid point for having those font variations.
And it's not a generic modifier because those code points predate the expanse of emoji and all surrounding normalization of modifiers. Language tags are considered a bad idea, for example, so it's not all clear that it's necessary for Unicode to convey semantics as well.
- specialist 7y agoThank you. I should have figured this out myself. I've been postponing going down the Unicode rabbit hole. Here's some relevant entries. π¦ 217F SMALL ROMAN NUMERAL ONE THOUSAND http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=217F http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=217F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_operators_and_symbols_in_Unicode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_operators_and_sym... Whelp. That's a lot to ingest. I suppose if (when) I have to do Unicode for real, I'll need to find the 'ascii' command line tool equivalents for Unicode.