[isabelle-dev] Script characters in words

[Tobias Nipkow]

On 06/03/2024 15:56, Makarius wrote:
> On 06/03/2024 15:01, Lawrence Paulson wrote:
>> Thanks for the explanation. I guess you are saying this is outside of our 
>> control.
> 
> It would mean to submit patches to the jEdit project. I did this for really 
> important things in the past: it does work, but can take a long time.
> 
> 
>> You do have to wonder how they did not introduce the entire script alphabet at 
>> the same time.
> 
> The Unicode committee has always been a bit of a mess. I guess the problem is 
> that US-centric mentality has tried to rule over the world's languages, with 
> limited success.

Introducing script "𝒜" much later than "ℬ" is a typical US-centric ploy.

Tobias

> In recent years, related to the STIX project, much of the mathematical 
> repertoire from TeX/LaTeX has been added in a post-hoc fashion.
> 
> 
>      Makarius
> 
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