Talk:Unicode subscripts and superscripts

message: I agree the second para needs a citation; I can't find one off hand. There are clearly pros and cons - interop is easier without markup, but the range of values is smaller. Will continue to look for some citations, maybe there was once some discussion in the WG, though I dont know these are public. Justinc (talk) 11:48, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know any current recommendations that make special exemptions for "²" and "³". That may be a leftover from the time when common fonts and computing platforms in English-speaking countries had trouble coping with characters outside the Latin 1 repertoire. But those days are mostly gone. So I replaced the paragraph with some quotations from Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages. Indefatigable (talk) 22:30, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  For anyone considering whether to use these or not: The Unicode Consortium and current HTML/CSS guidelines recommend using markup (such as ) which will look more consistent. However if the reader copy/pastes text with markup they will often lose said markup when they paste the text. ―MJBurrage(T•C) 16:21, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: When to use

message: Is there a reason why the table is in HTML, not in wiki syntax? --92.226.196.72 (talk) 23:21, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, and I replaced it with your version. babbage (talk) 20:16, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Table syntax

message: Can somebody explain the addition of "Wikipedia:" to the page name?
This does not appear to have been done with other pages describing Unicode subsets.
: The move was mistaken, since the topic of which character encoding to use to represent superscripts and subscripts is not Wikipedia-specific, but rather a topic that is relevant to all of digital typography. Thus it is incorrect to say that it's not encyclopedic (which was the argument given for the move). It should be moved back. If one claims that "Unicode subscripts and superscripts" doesn't "count" as a worthy topic for an encyclopedia article, then you have to move half of Wikipedia out of the article namespace into the project namespace. It doesn't pan out upon analysis. — ¾-10 20:50, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Update: I asked at the help desk for someone to move it back, and it was restored. — ¾-10 17:01, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  WIkipedia: ? 

message: "...your browser for instance produces 11⁄12..."
Not everyone reading this will be using a browser. Not everyone reading an encyclopedia expects to be addressed personally nor is it a very appropriate example. Very poor use of language here.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.142.230 (talk) 18:58, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor wording 

message: I am surprised that Google Chome on my tablet (Samsung Tab 2 - GT-N8000) is missing many of these chars, only showing 1-4 in both, while on my phone they are ok. I also tested in the app "Unicode Chars" with the same results.  Maybe some fonts need to be installed, but it isnt obvious how to do that.
I dont see the same problem with Firefox on the tab, and no problems with Chrome on Ubuntu. Are there any other browsers with problems on some platforms? John Vandenberg (chat) 13:37, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It makes sense that older mobile devices may lack Unicode support. Maybe the phone is newer and has more Unicode support. Do you need some specific Unicode superscripts and subscripts for some purposes? 2A01:119F:21D:7900:89A7:4322:8B46:1724 (talk) 07:04, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Browser support 

message: For those of us who are not technical experts it would be a great help to have some examples on how to use these characters.  JFB80 (talk) 20:12, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure I understand. They're Unicode characters; you enter them the same ways you enter other Unicode characters. I'm not sure it's appropriate for us to get into more detail then that on this page.--Prosfilaes (talk) 09:36, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't understand what about his comment you don't understand. He's asking for some examples of the intended use cases for these characters. This isn't an unreasonable question, especially given that you obviously cannot super- / subscript any arbitrary text using these characters. They're only intended for particular uses, and showing what these uses are would therefore be very helpful to the average reader.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.67.227.181 (talk) 16:44, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't the first sentence of the "Uses" section cover this? DRMcCreedy (talk) 21:22, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some examples please 

message: If "overscript" characters are to be included in the tables I think they should be defined, with references, somewhere in the article.  Otherwise it strikes me as original research. DRMcCreedy (talk) 16:22, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overscript 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :ꭟ. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 19#ꭟ until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 08:19, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "ꭟ" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: This might have been true in 2018, but is this still true? I'm asking because all the examples appear fine to me. 92.67.227.181 (talk) 16:39, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  very poorly supported 

message: There seems to have been some changes made to the unicode subscripts and superscripts. These have borked this page and many others across the internet. Can anyone help explain what has changed and how to fix things? Ehdeejay (talk) 21:02, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you mean by "borked"? — kwami (talk) 23:47, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  2022 changes 

message: Well ѯ was lost in history for English and added to Cyrillic but wynn and yogh was olso lost ): 188.69.103.196 (talk) 10:59, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is ȝ,ƿ,ѯ lost in English?