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Marc Lacoste (talk | contribs) →Lost semantic integrity: :: Thanks for your reply. Of course we can't have all thousands of Unicode characters on our keyboards, but they are available by many other means, most ostensibly the insert section at the bottom of this edit window. And searching for "2" (two) should not find "²" (square), they do not have the same meaning. The Wikipedia search should be fixed, but it is a problem of its own.--~~~~ |
Marc Lacoste (talk | contribs) →Lost semantic integrity: More in Unicode subscripts and superscripts. So, the font designers are dumb, but we continue to use <nowiki><sup>/<sub></nowiki> hacks instead of switching to a more sane font?--~~~~ |
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:Unicode causes many complications, for example in my browser I cannot type those suffix Unicode characters and I only know to copy and paste them from elsewhere. Also searching for "2" does not find "²". The Wikipedia search treats "²" as if it didn't exist, though a regex search can spot it. [[User:Graeme Bartlett|Graeme Bartlett]] ([[User talk:Graeme Bartlett|talk]]) 11:26, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
:: Thanks for your reply. Of course we can't have all thousands of [[Unicode]] characters on our keyboards, but they are available by many other means, most ostensibly the insert section at the bottom of this edit window. And searching for "2" (two) should not find "²" (square), they do not have the same meaning. The Wikipedia search should be fixed, but it is a problem of its own.--[[User:Marc Lacoste|Marc Lacoste]] ([[User talk:Marc Lacoste|talk]]) 13:26, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
More in [[Unicode subscripts and superscripts]]. So, the font designers are dumb, but we continue to use <nowiki><sup>/<sub></nowiki> hacks instead of switching to a more sane font?--[[User:Marc Lacoste|Marc Lacoste]] ([[User talk:Marc Lacoste|talk]]) 13:34, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
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