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Should we also have slanted, bold, semi-bold, light and underlined versions of every code point? Versions with/without serifs? For monospaced text? Those are al
by vesinisa 5y ago
Should we also have slanted, bold, semi-bold, light and underlined versions of every code point? Versions with/without serifs? For monospaced text? Those are all presentational matters. That we have super/subscripts in Unicode in the first place seems to have been just a hack to help terminal emulator software deal with obsolete encodings like ISO-8859-1: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00159-ucsterminal.txt https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00159-ucsterminal.txt
- account42 5y ago๐๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ผ๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ฃ๐/๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐จ๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ? ๐๐ฝ ๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ผ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฑ๐ฅ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ค๐ฅ๐ฑ ๐๐!
- mkl 5y agoThose are intended for maths, not for formatted text. Variables in mathematics are usually a single character, so there is a great variety of ways to format the characters to create different symbols. Diacritical marks, underlines, etc. are also used for this.