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Pxtl on June 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode...

I'm always wierded out by that, because it implies we should support the full gamut of math - superscripted/subscripted text, large fractions, the text above and below the epsilon in discrete sums, etc.

kps on June 23, 2016 [–]

½ ¼ ¾ are in Unicode because they're in ISO 8859. They're in ISO 8859 because they appeared on a fair number of typewriters and metal fonts.

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