On 2025-10-27, at 22:44, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote: > > RFC1119 is the precedent.
Nice precedent. *** Latin-1 Supplement (Common) ±: U+00B1 2 PLUS-MINUS SIGN *** Greek and Coptic (Greek) δ: U+03B4 7 GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA *** General Punctuation (Common) –: U+2013 1 EN DASH ’: U+2019 6 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK ⁄: U+2044 2 FRACTION SLASH *** Arrows (Common) ←: U+2190 85 LEFTWARDS ARROW →: U+2192 1 RIGHTWARDS ARROW ↓: U+2193 1 DOWNWARDS ARROW *** Mathematical Operators (Common) ∑: U+2211 3 N-ARY SUMMATION −: U+2212 28 MINUS SIGN ≠: U+2260 1 NOT EQUAL TO ≤: U+2264 3 LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO (Ignoring the fact that the ≠ is formed in the PostScript via a combining character, so we aren’t quite NFC :-) *** Combining Diacritical Marks (Inherited) ̸: U+0338 1 COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY So we have typewriter quotes (boo), but typographic apostrophes (emulated by a right single quotation mark), en-dashes, minus signs(!), fraction slashes, a math sigma!... Grüße, Carsten -- rswg mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
