On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:02:43PM +0100, Marcel Schneider wrote: > On 30/10/2018 at 21:34, Khaled Hosny via Unicode wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 04:52:47PM +0100, Marcel Schneider via Unicode > > wrote: > > > E.g. in Arabic script, superscript is considered worth > > > encoding and using without any caveat, whereas when Latin script is on, > > > superscripts are thrown into the same cauldron as underscoring. > > > > Curious, what Arabic superscripts are encoded in Unicode? > > First, ARABIC LETTER SUPERSCRIPT ALEPH U+0671. > But it is a vowel sign. Many letters put above are called superscript > when explaining in English.
As you say, this is a vowel sign not a superscript letter, so the name is a misnomer at best. It should have been called COMBINING ARABIC LETTER ALEF ABOVE, similar to COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER A. In Arabic it is called small or dagger alef. > There is the range U+FC5E..U+FC63 (presentation forms). That is a backward compatiplity block no one is supposed to use, there are many such backward comatipility presentation forms even of Latin script (U+FB00..U+FB4F). So I don’t see what makes you think, based on this, that Unicode is favouring Arabic or other scripts over Latin. Regards, Khaled
