character question

Hello all.

Rich O'Keefe at the American Institute of Physics posed the following
question to me, and I don't know the answer, so I'm reposting it
here:

> Essentially, in ISOamsr/mmlalias.ent there are the following
> characters:
> 
> ⪆   (⪆ in MathML) mapped to codepoint x2273 (Unicode
> list this as x2A86 for the double squiggly) 
>
> ⪅    (⪅ in MathML) mapped to codepoint x2272 (Unicode
> list this as x2A85 for the double squiggly) 
> 
> The conflict is that the above entities refer to a less than or
> greater sign over double squiggly lines, but the unicode character
> is a less than or greater than over a single squiggly line.
> 
> The codepoints are duplicated for the actual less than or greater
> than over a single squiggly line:
> 
> ≳ (≳ in MathML) also mapped to codepoint x2273 (this is
> correct) 
> 
> ≲ (≲ in MathML) also mapped to codepoint x2272 (this is
> correct) 
> 
> We can work around this for our purposes, but since it seems like a
> possible area to rectify, I'd like to bring to the attention of the
> proper authority.
> 
> Any recommendation would be great.

If you have an answer to post, please be sure to keep Rich in the Cc to
your message.

Thanks,

--Robert

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Received on Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:55:36 UTC