Michael Everson wrote,
| It might cause some problems with (e.g.) existing small capitals like
| LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL R, which would subsequently have to be
| decomposable.
I wonder what you thought of my suggestion to define many, many
new decompositions, with the aid of a few new "presentation suggestion"
characters
PRESENTATION SUGGESTION ALTERNATIVE
PRESENTATION SUGGESTION BLACK LETTER
PRESENTATION SUGGESTION DOUBLE-STRUCK
PRESENTATION SUGGESTION ITALIC
PRESENTATION SUGGESTION LIGATURE
PRESENTATION SUGGESTION NARROW
PRESENTATION SUGGESTION SCRIPT
PRESENTATION SUGGESTION SMALL
PRESENTATION SUGGESTION SUBSCRIPT
PRESENTATION SUGGESTION SUPERSCRIPT
PRESENTATION SUGGESTION VERTICAL
PRESENTATION SUGGESTION WIDE
and a grouping character
START GROUP
(terminated by POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING)?
It sounds as thugh these might be very useful for a script
containing a lot of superscripts, small caps, etc. LATIN LETTER SMALL
CAPITAL R is then decomposed as LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R + PRESENTATION
SUGGESTION SMALL, and should be visible (if represented by its
decomposition) in some form even on devices that have never heard of
the Finno-Ugric Phonetic Alphabet.
For the character mentioned in the subject line, this gives
asterisk, presentation suggestion superscript.
It allows a good start on plain-text mathematics: E = mc˛ can be
written as
latin capital letter e, presentation suggestion italic,
space,
equals sign,
space,
start group,
latin small letter m,
latin small letter c,
pop directional formatting,
presentation suggestion italic,
digit two, presentation suggestion superscript.
And finally, given Ken Whistler's point
| U+220A SMALL ELEMENT OF is actually the math character know as the
| straight epsilon. It is more properly conceived of as a symbolic
| variant of the epsilon, rather than one of the cup-shaped set
| relations. The glyph is being corrected in Unicode 3.0 and a
| clarifying note has been added to the text.
it could be decomposed as
greek small letter epsilon, presentation suggestion alternative.
But I don't want to appear to be flogging a dead horse, so I'll stop
now. :-)
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