On Sun, Oct 28 2018 at 20:42 GMT, Michael Everson wrote: > This is no different the Irish name McCoy which can be written MᶜCoy > where the raising of the c is actually just decorative, though perhaps > it was once an abbreviation for Mac. In some styles you can see a line > or a dot under the raised c. This is purely decorative. > > I would encode this as Mʳ if you wanted to make sure your data > contained the abbreviation mark. [...]
> The squiggle in your sample, Janusz, does not indicate anything; it is > only a decoration, and the abbreviation is the same without it. I have received off the list even more radical suggestion: >>> The third and the last question is: how to encode this symbol in >>> Unicode? > > Why would you need to? Its plain text content is adequately > represented by "Mr" On Sun, Oct 28 2018 at 23:57 GMT, James Kass wrote: > The umlauts in the band name "Mötley Crüe" are decorative, yet the > difference between "Mötley Crüe" and "Motley Crue" is one of > spelling. Although the tilde in the place name "Rancho Peñasquitos" > is *not* decorative, "Rancho Peñasquitos" vs. "Rancho Penasquitos" is > still a spelling difference. [...] > If "Mccoy" vs. "McCoy" vs. "MCCOY" vs. "MC COY" represent spelling > differences, then so do "McCoy" vs "MᶜCoy". It's a matter of opinion, > and opinions often differ. Well said, but I make the claim stronger; it depends on the purpose of the encoding and intended applications. Handwriting recognition (HWR) is no longer just an abstract possibility, it's a facility present to everybody e.g. in Transkribus (https://transkribus.eu/) which I actually use for transcribing the texts of interest. Do you claim that in the ground-truth for HWR the squiggle and raising doesn't matter? Best regards Janusz -- , Janusz S. Bien emeryt (emeritus) https://sites.google.com/view/jsbien
