On 2018-10-31, Marcel Schneider via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> Preformatted Unicode superscript small letters are meeting the French > superscript > requirement, that is found in: > http://www.academie-francaise.fr/abreviations-des-adjectifs-numeraux > (in French). This brief article focuses on the spelling of the indicators, > without questioning the fact that they are superscript. When one does question the Académie about the fact, this is their reply: Le fait de placer en exposant ces mentions est de convention typographique ; il convient donc de le faire. Les seules exceptions sont pour Mme et Mlle. which, if my understanding of "convient" is correct, carefully does quite say that it is *wrong* not to superscript, but that one should superscript when one can because that is the convention in typography. My original question was: Dans les imprimés ou dans le manuscrit on écrit "1<sup>er</sup>, 45<sup>e</sup>" etc. (J'utilise l'indication HTML pour les lettres supérieures.) La question est: est-ce que les lettres supérieures sont *obligatoires*, ou sont-ils simplement une question de style? C'est à dire, si on écrit "1er, 45e" etc., est-ce une erreur, ou un style simple mais correct? I did not think that their Dictionary desk would understand the concept of plain text, so I didn't ask explicitly for their opinions on encoding :) Which takes us back to when typography is plain text... -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
