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Lost semantic integrity: :Unicode superscripts and subscripts are long gone from modern typesetting. This isn't the 90s anymore. ~~~~
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This doesn't happen very often, but sometimes appears in the <code>title=</code> field of journal citations in chemistry-related articles, when the journal entry is about a specific chemical or chemical formula. [[User:Sbb|sbb]] ([[User talk:Sbb|talk]]) 01:41, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
:No. There should be no exception, anywhere, unless these are specifically ''about'' the unicode characters themselves. If there's a metadata issue, fix how metadata is emitted. &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 01:45, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
::The outcome of [[Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 80#HTML markup]] seems to be that we don't make an exception for footnotes, and templates are expected to clean up COinS output as needed. -- [[User:Beland|Beland]] ([[User talk:Beland|talk]]) 22:47, 3 December 2021 (UTC)