- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:10:48 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 07/12/2013 12:03 PM, fantasai wrote: > 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. Example: :) http://www.jerrysartarama.com/images/SALE_INDEX/2013/summer-sale/featured-products-b2_02.jpg ~fantasai
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