On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 09:27:13 -0700, Ken Whistler wrote: […] > Their functions have been completely overtaken by markup conventions > such as <sub>...</sub> and <sup>...</sup>, which *are* widely supported > already, even in most email clients, ri^ght out of the b_ox . > > And I suspect that Yucca's statement "so it would usually be best to > give up the superscripting idea here" is intended to mean give up on > asking for a separately encoded superscript character for each Latin > letter, including accented ones (or applying accents to separately > encoded superscript letters). Because, after all, this stuff already > just works: «3^ème » (and not «3ᵉ̀ᵐᵉ», by the way!).
High level formatting in high-end mail clients is of little use when the target environment is plain text. Itʼs still unambiguous, though. As of superscript ‘è’, I had asked for it as soon as 2014, and I fully understood that Unicode no longer encourages proposals of any *new* precomposed characters. This was before I learned that ‘3ème’ is not good French. These long ordinal indicators are deprecated. Regards, Marcel
