Re: unicode and wide_text_io

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 21:04:26 +0100, "Dmitry A. Kazakov"
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> declaimed the following:

>On 2017-12-27 19:08, Mehdi Saada wrote:
>

>> The slash character ? would allow better looking fractions for
>> outputting rationnals, since it's meant to tell the terminal to
>> consider numbersbefore and after as superscript and subscript,
>> respectively.
>
>Why don't you simply output super- or subscript digits in UTF-8?
>
	Given the OP's phrasing, it almost sounds like they are trying to send
a terminal specific control sequence in which the terminal somehow performs
super/sub scripting on the "numbers" surrounding that sequence.

	Not a feature I recall ever seeing on a terminal... Not on VT100/ANSI
controls, at least.
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