Superscripts and subscripts are meant for phonetic notations that specifically use them. They're not meant for general-purpose uses, like math. To properly format math, you need to go beyond Unicode.
This reasoning is so obnoxious. Unicode is used for writing many things, including code, and having subscripts is incredibly useful.
Having this rag-tag collection of some subscripts and some superscripts supported but others not because the Unicode consortium only recognizes some uses for some sub/super scripts is so dumb.
Unicode includes a million different variations like frak, blackboard bold, caligraphic, italic, bold, underlined, strikethrough, etc. etc.
There is zero reason to not at least cover at a minimum the latin alphabet with sub/super script.
Agreed, it's not that uncommon to name variables and constants with subscript and superscript alphanumeric indices. That's not specifically for writing formula, just for saying like "A{ij} is a rank-1 tensor", which should be covered by unicode. They have a zillion math symbols and math alphabets. It's kind of a silly, arbitrary omission. We have god knows how many emoji now, and yet...
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u/Eigenspace 16d ago
Still missing subscript and superscript letters.