Re: Category of "Mathematic Alphanumeric Symbols"

From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 11:39:09 CDT

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    On 2004.06.10, 17:33, I wrote:

    > U+1D4AC's category is simply "Lu [Letter, Uppercase]". In fact all
    > math symbols of the 1D400-1D7FF block are simply Lu or Ll (or Nd)
    > and "can" be used as letters; I have somehow asumed otherwise.

    And on Wed, 09 Jun 2004 22:42:30 -0700, Asmus Freytag
    <asmusf@ix.netcom.com> wrote (in reply to a different message):

    > The mathematical script capital Q has no formal case mapping to
    > mathematical script small q as case transformation would normally
    > change the meaning of a mathematical text.

    Ah, here's the difference between a cased letter and a math symbol
    that looks like one.

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