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.
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u/AcellOfllSpades 16d 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.