On 9/15/2024 1:19 PM, Sławomir Osipiuk via Unicode wrote:
I always assumed that ® should appear on the baseline, as should ©.
In the mail client I am using to view these messages, the monospaced font has a superscript form while the variable width font has what might be called a "large" superscript form, or a "raised" form.
The latter might well be intended to represent a bit of a compromise, but it has the advantage that it makes the symbol more readable on screen. The superscript form in the monospaced font could almost be a circled dot or star when viewed at the default font size and I could not tell whether an R or P is intended.
The issue is that for cases where a larger font is used, that could become too prominent. The circled R, after all, is used like an annotation, and not as an abbreviation that may stand in for the word itself in the sentence as in many uses of the copyright symbol.
The annotation aspect is what makes me think that fonts that show the circled R on the baseline have got it wrong.
A./
