At 13:14 -0500 2001-06-11, Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:
>I'm not in a position to argue for or against these kinds of things in
>plain text for Italian, French, etc. where the orthographies clearly do not
>include superscripts as separate graphemes but rather these are notational
>devices that supplement the orthography. Italics, bold and underlining are
>also used to mean certain things, but clearly don't belong encoded as
>character data. For things like 1e, I'm not sure where to draw the line.
Lots of people with names like McGowan like to have the "c",
ostensibly an abbreviation for "ac" superscripted and underlined. ;-)
-- Michael Everson
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