RE: [css3-fonts] subscript/superscript variants

[John Hudson:]
> 
> On 09/05/12 3:11 PM, Christopher Slye wrote:
> 
> > John, to what misunderstanding are you referring? It looks to me like
> > ordinal é turns up in the real world often enough. -Christopher
> 
> [Note typo in my original message: it should be è not é]
> 
> Ordinal è shows up when people write première as 1ère, but that is an
> error, and the correct ordinal abbreviation of première is 1re.
> 
> The standard French ordinal is e -- e.g. 2e, 3e. 4e, etc. -- except for
> the singular in which one needs to distinguish masculine premier and
> feminine première, which are respectively 1er and 1re.
> 
If by standard you mean 'what people *should* do', sure. In practice
the use of è remains common e.g. run a web search for "2ème".