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0 pointsalpaca1285y ago0 comments

Which is why I am so disappointed about those gaps in Unicode. Apparently the Unicode consortium doesn't care because in their eyes such things have to be handled by higher level formatting software, but that's not a very convincing excuse imho.

It's just so bewildering when on one hand lowercase superscript is missing exactly one letter for the full coverage, and at the same time Unicode has characters like "Grinning cat face with smiling eyes"(U+1F638). Just what I needed.

It's a bit disappointing because together with the integration in the REPL this feature in Julia works well enough to give a glimpse of the potential but when trying to experiment more it shows gaps that make it a bit of a trial-and-error situation. Better direct support in standardized encodings could make this much more usable and maybe not just in one specific language.

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xiaodai5y ago· 1 in thread

How about super and sub scripts for thr 35000 or some Chinese character? I think thr unicode committee made the right call

alpaca128OP5y ago

How about a single "superscript" and "subscript" modifier that handles any of the other Unicode symbols?

The standard already has enough formatting options to make smartphones crash by sending them a text message(as could be seen multiple times on both Android and iOS).

If you think the unicode committee made the right call, please explain why the decision to add smiling cat pictures and over 10 heart symbols was correct but not supporting everyday maths notation.

adgjlsfhk15y ago

IMO, the solution here from unicode's end seems really clear. Just add superscript and subscript modifiers (the same way emoji have skin-tone and gender modifiers). That way, you don't need to add special ones for every character people want different versions of.

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