- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:29:20 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 11/07/13 5:14 PM, fantasai wrote: > What's used for the zeros in 1.00 when it's written looking kinda like 1°°? Good question. That's a very problematic convention from a text encoding perspective, because if you treat the superscripted zeros as glyph variants, then your text is actually 100, and may display as such if the font is change (unless you get really funky with contextual substition such that the decimal separator is swallowed in the superscript substitution; but that's prone to problems because different locales use different decimal separators). The only safe way to ensure that display is to use Unicode superscript numeral characters: 1⁰⁰. But, really, some vernacular writing conventions were only ever intended to be scribbled on a piece of cardboard by a greengrocer, not to subject of computer text encoding and interchange. JH
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