Oren Watson wrote: > Would it be appropriate to submit an omnibus proposal for encoding all > remaining english letters in subscript, small caps, and superscript in > the SMP for the purpose of not arbitrarily constraining the use of > unicode for new linguistic theories and ideas, similar to the > mathematical characters?
<imho> "For new theories and ideas" is a red flag. For letters in writing systems, it's traditionally been important to show how the character(s) would be used in current, real-world scenarios, not for some future, as-yet unknown purpose. It's likely that the proposals to add the existing subscript and superscript and smallcap letters were required to include such rationales. Using the math alphabets as a precedent for encoding something might not be an effective strategy, as they are often considered to be exceptional and not analogous to characters used for writing human languages. </imho> -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org