18 Feb
2016
18 Feb
'16
12:40 a.m.
On 02/17/2016 11:18 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:08:31 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:
you're an american citizen who likes $x^2$ but to call if beautiful ... €x^2€ nor £x^2£ (in 8 bit encodings / local keyboards times) all look bad ...
Hans, you forgot: ¥x^2¥, ₽x^2₽, ₱x^2₱, ₹x^2₹, ... Besides, U+0024 comes from ASCII and all programmers know that it is a perfectly valid and useful character.
Of course, and even ₧x²₧ or even ₯x²₯...
we need a proper begin/end symbol ..
Too bad Knuth did not choose ¡x^2!
Excuse me, Alan, this is exclamation in Spanish (and only in Spanish). Just out of curiosity, why do you think he should have chosen that? Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk