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> could explicitly add these cases as letters, Unicode already defines compatibility equivalence[0]. Normalizing seems like the most sensible default for me -
by Ukv 2y ago
> could explicitly add these cases as letters,
Unicode already defines compatibility equivalence[0]. Normalizing seems like the most sensible default for me - then it'd handle ｔｈｉｓ, ᵗʰⁱˢ, and so on.
> though that would make the reader attempt to read math as words.
For symbols originally intended for mathematical use, it probably then makes sense to add a special case to read out like T-H-I-S. But I wouldn't say that's strictly necessary - even in mathematical expressions you can have variables that are words rather than single letters, and either way it's definitely better than just skipping it.
[0]: https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/#Compatibility_Equivalence_Figure https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/#Compatibility_Equivalence_...
- ryandrake 2y agoCall me old fashioned, but maybe if people want to communicate "this" they should just type "this" and stop trying to be so Internet-quirky.
- Ukv 2y agoI think that comes back to: > Here the use is fairly frivolous, but most such character sets do have legitimate use - like fullwidth latin characters for readability when used alongside CJK - so really shouldn't just be skipped. The use given in the article is quirky - but these are real characters with proper uses and shouldn't just be skipped.
- eviks 2y agoOld fashioned people dead centuries ago used formatting for their letters, no reason this is in any way "Internet-quirky", the real internet quirk stems entirely from silly platform constraints