Re: [css3-fonts] ordinals

On 07/11/2013 05:29 PM, John Hudson wrote:
> On 11/07/13 5:14 PM, fantasai wrote:
>
>> What's used for the zeros in 1.00 when it's written looking kinda like 1°°?
>
> Good question. That's a very problematic convention from a text encoding perspective, because if you treat the superscripted
> zeros as glyph variants, then your text is actually 100, and may display as such if the font is change (unless you get really
> funky with contextual substition such that the decimal separator is swallowed in the superscript substitution; but that's
> prone to problems because different locales use different decimal separators).
>
> The only safe way to ensure that display is to use Unicode superscript numeral characters: 1⁰⁰. But, really, some vernacular
> writing conventions were only ever intended to be scribbled on a piece of cardboard by a greengrocer, not to subject of
> computer text encoding and interchange.

Fair enough. Some conventions include the decimal point, though.
Like this: http://pcbdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/on-sale.jpg
In which case it's not ambiguous. :)

This is reasonably common in printed advertisements, not just
hand-written signs.

~fantasai

Received on Friday, 12 July 2013 19:04:05 UTC