On Mittwoch, 27. August 2014 12:25:32 CEST, Hi-Angel wrote:
Hardly. Those are mathemtical symbols and *not* for text at all.
Also it's no way "Fraktur"[1] and the only two fraktur additions in unicode
are u+017f and u+2e17 (special german fraktur letters/symbols that are not
in use in latin, u+017f is a "soft" "s".
Why do you think that it isn't for a text?
Because text is either written in latin, kyrillic, hirigana/katagana, hanzi, .... not in
mathematical symbols. It may randomly look like text, but the content is actually just
"meaningless" (out of context)
And why does you decided that it is not Fraktur…?
1. I'm German.
2. I've read more than a dozen books in Fraktur
3. The unicode characters look *nothing* like Fraktur (that explicitly means
the WP example) in my current system font (Adobe Sans Pro) - and I can not
recall them to look like that in any of my math books either.
Well, then it is a problem of an outdated font.
You mean like 98% of all fonts available?
Hint: the system usually completes missing chars from some substitute/default
font.
I can suppose that some old sites isn't using it.
1. "The internet" != "html"
2. *every* html page that does not explicitly have <meta charset="utf8"> is to
be considered latin-1
3. MS uses UTF-16 on the system and happily exports windows-125* from word or
whatever the last idiot uses to create a webpage.
If you want a fraktur look, write latin-1, using a Fraktur font.
Cheers,
Thomas
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