On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 20:42:04 +0000 Michael Everson via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> I like palaeographic renderings of text very much indeed, and in fact > remain in conflict with members of the UTC (who still, alas, do NOT > communicate directly about such matters, but only in duelling ballot > comments) about some actually salient representations required for > medievalist use. The squiggle in your sample, Janusz, does not > indicate anything; it is only a decoration, and the abbreviation is > the same without it. I think this is one of the few cases where Multicode may have advantages over Unicode. In a mathematical contest, aⁿ would be interpreted as _a_ applied _n_ times. As to "fⁿ", ambiguity may be avoided by the superscript being inappropriate for an exponent. What is redundant in one context may be significant in another. Richard.