Resolved Characters lacking

[Deleted member 473]

How are we supposed to type CO2 with the [Edit]subscript 2? It comes out as CO₂ when I try.

What other characters are missing? Or is it a function of my device, in which case how do we know what will or will not view correctly on all devices?

I thought that Unicode at least would be supported, even with its many omissions.

 

[prpr]

How are we supposed to type CO2 with the superscript 2

Subscript.

 

[Trev]

But incorrect and a subject for AvP?

 

[Deleted member 473]

Testing: ♷⚉☸⁶₂½㉕⊆➽‱℃℉₁₁∜⌠∰∄ℵ⋐∭∠❃℥㎤♭

So subscripts and some other characters are missing but loads of other characters are there, including superscripts. They all see to be there on my phone.

 

[Black Hole]

Area of a circle: πr²
Volume of a sphere: ⁴︎/₃︎πr³ (doesn't look very good, better as 4πr³/3)

Poor Willy was a scientist,
Poor Willy is no more,
For what he thought was H₂︎︎O
Was H₂︎︎SO₄︎.

 

[EEPhil]

Testing: ♷⚉☸⁶₂½㉕⊆➽‱℃℉₁₁∜⌠∰∄ℵ⋐∭∠❃℥㎤♭

πr² H₂︎︎SO₄︎

I refer you to my post in AvP re talking to technology https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/assume-v-presume.1453/page-134#post-105985 - "Stupid f....ing website" - all I can see is a lot of empty squares. I will have to switch to a different (memory hogging) browser to read these postings!

 

[MikeSh]

How are we supposed to type CO2 with the [Edit]subscript 2? It comes out as CO₂ when I try.

What other characters are missing? Or is it a function of my device, in which case how do we know what will or will not view correctly on all devices?

I thought that Unicode at least would be supported, even with its many omissions.

That subscript 2 displays correctly (unless it being sans serif is a problem) on my device as do the other +/-scripts in other posts (oddly the super script 2 in BH's post is serif but not the sub). So it's probably an issue with your device or browser.

As to multi device display ... it's what PDF was invented for.

 

[EEPhil]

Ah, that's better. The bloatware that is Firefox displays the characters perfectly.

 

[Black Hole]

I guessed it was a browser problem and was about to post a screenshot as an image. I'll do it anyway (for anyone else not using rich text):

 

[prpr]

For what he thought was H₂︎︎O
Was H₂︎︎SO₄︎.

But the digits are just a small font not subscript, aren't they?

 

[Black Hole]

Yes and no. Yes, they appear as if they are a smaller point size, but no they are actually different glyphs in the same character set and point size.

If rendered in a different font, they do display below the line:

Area of a circle: πr²
Volume of a sphere: ⁴︎/₃︎πr³ (doesn't look very good, better as 4πr³/3)

Poor Willy was a scientist,
Poor Willy is no more,
For what he thought was H₂︎︎O
Was H₂︎︎SO₄︎.

 

[Black Hole]

Ah, that's better. The bloatware that is Firefox displays the characters perfectly.

But it was Mike0001 that reported the "problem"!

 

[EEPhil]

If there was some way to inject html into postings it would be possible to use a construct like:

CO<sub>2</sub> or  &pi;r<sup>2</sup>

This should make it readable for everyone - but a sod to write.

 

[Black Hole]

If rendered in a different font, they do display below the line:

Oh! They do in iOS/Safari, but not in Win7/Chrome:

Win7/Chrome:



iOS/Safari:

 

[prpr]

They do in iOS/Safari, but not in Win7/Chrome

They don't in W7/FF either, hence my confusion in #10.

 

[Black Hole]

Well, yes, but prior to your post 10 they were in a font that renders on the line in iOS and Win7/Chrome... but on an Android phone they are below the line even in my first post!

 

[Deleted member 473]

Area of a circle: πr²
Volume of a sphere: ⁴︎/₃︎πr³ (doesn't look very good, better as 4πr³/3)

Poor Willy was a scientist,
Poor Willy is no more,
For what he thought was H₂︎︎O
Was H₂︎︎SO₄︎.

They don't all display correctly here, but possibly do on my laptop. The subscripts are all missing. The characters display fine in a text editor on my tablet, but when I paste them here they no longer work. Perhaps it is my browser.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Ah, that's better. The bloatware that is Firefox displays the characters perfectly.

Ah, Firefox implements MathML, so that may be it.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Testing: ♷⚉☸⁶₂½㉕⊆➽‱℃℉₁₁∜⌠∰∄ℵ⋐∭∠❃℥㎤♭

No good in FF or Opera on Android, though the CO2 came out right in FF!

In Chrome I see the superscript 6, one half, subset, black arrow, degrees C, top half of integral, cm cubed and flat only.

 

[EEPhil]

No good in FF or Opera on Android, though the CO2 came out right in FF!

Your test works in Netscape Navigator (from 2008)! Only gripe would be subscripts not sub enough. No MathML in that browser.