Re: Superscript asterisk

From: Torsten Mohrin (mohrin@sharmahd.com)
Date: Wed Jun 30 1999 - 05:45:33 EDT


On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 01:39:53 -0700 (PDT), Ricardo Bermell-Benet wrote:

>Just one more point.
>
>What about U+2208 "ELEMENT OF" and U+220A "SMALL ELEMENT OF"?
>Two gliphs differenciated only in their stylus (particularly,
>their size) but two separated characters!

I guess, they had different code points in an existing character set
standard. So the difference has been preserved for backward
compatibility.

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Torsten Mohrin
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