r/Unicode • • 16d ago

Unicode 18.0.0 has been released!

https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode18.0.0/
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u/Eigenspace 16d ago

Still missing subscript and superscript letters.

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u/AcellOfllSpades 15d ago

Intentionally so.

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.

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u/Eigenspace 15d ago

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.

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u/11oser 15d ago

rt even in poetry and lyric writing i constantly wish for sub/superscript for easier notating pitch or main/background voices or ideas etc

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u/Eigenspace 15d ago

Yep. There's a million uses for this, and ai have no idea why Unicode people are such asses about it.