Re: Unicode Superscripts (was: Master of the twelve)

From: johnvertical@...
Message: 67004
Date: 2010-12-30

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:
>
> >> A capital N or L could also mean 'velar _'; since neither is
> >> standard in IE > IIr for this word, I asked.
>
> > I use [mojibake replaced by <U+014B LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG>] for the velar nasal; I tend to use UTF-8, but it has no representation of superscript, AFAIK.
>
> The following two characters are available in Unicode:
>
> <U+207F SUPERSCRIPT LATIN SMALL LETTER N> (added in Unicode 1.1)
> <U+1D51 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL ENG> (added in Unicode 4.0)
>
> However, there is no guarantee that everyone's browsers and e-mail clients can render them.

Should I remind there's an easier and more intuitiv (as it's also used in IPA, X-SAMPA, etc.) choice for nasality: the tilde? Especially when all the ASCII-IPA systems out there use <N> for the velar nasal:
http://www.blahedo.org/ascii-ipa.html

John Vertical