RE: Pi Constancy

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Mon Dec 01 1997 - 18:13:09 EST


Ar 14:27 -0800 1997-12-01, scríobh Murray Sargent:
>Amen. If we wanted to define separate codepoints for all the important math
>and science symbols, we'd need another surrogate plane. Such definitions
>are really at a higher level than plain text.

I hasten to add that I was _not_ suggesting that we do so. I'd like to see
little "deprecated" notes next to things like ANGSTROM SIGN, which is
really LATIN LETTER A WITH RING. I bet Dr. Ångström would agree.

But I'm not pressing that, either.

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