Unicode compatibility characters: Difference between revisions

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* masculine ([[º|U+00BA]]) and feminine ([[ª|U+00AA]]) ordinal indicators included in the Latin-1 supplement{{citation needed|date=January 2012}} block

Finally, Unicode designates Roman numerals as compatibility equivalence to the Latin letters that share the same glyphs. Here the Unicode Standard make the same mistake in confusing glyph and character that it so often seeks to prevent. Certainly there's a need to deal with the visual ambiguity these characters may suffer when sharing the same glyphs, however a [[Sign-value notation|sign-value]] numeral for one is certainly a semantically distinct character from a Latin capital or small letter ‘i’.{{citation needed|date=May 2009}}. A similar visual ambiguity exists between such characters as the Latin capital letter A (U+0041) and the Greek capital letter Alpha (Α U+0391), yet Unicode does not unify those characters.

* Capital Roman Numerals (7): One (Ⅰ U+2160), Five (Ⅴ U+2164), Ten (Ⅹ U+2169), Fifty (Ⅼ U+216C), One Hundred (Ⅽ U+216D), Five Hundred (Ⅾ U+216E), One Thousand (Ⅿ U+216F)