RE: Bit arithmetic on Unicode characters?

Andrew West wrote:

> Well, it could be picked up from that most treacherous of Unicode data
> files http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt

Even then, you have:

...
1D454 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL G
        # <font> 0067 latin small letter g
1D455 <reserved>
        x (planck constant - 210E)
1D456 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL I
        # <font> 0069 latin small letter i
...

The only way you can tell from this that U+210E is a mathematical italic
small H is from the context of the previous character. That wouldn't
bode well if the letter A were one of the exceptionally located code
points. Thankfully, it never is, so this cleverness might work after
all.
 

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