From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.fcku.it!peer04.fr7!futter-mich.highwinds-media.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 15:47:15 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: unicode and wide_text_io Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:47:16 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.68.178.188 X-Trace: sv3-0fzTshwpk3gHbXk66N/WhkY1XEwEhtXCYgFSzmtR9eWRAzGJC/oL76DQdKvxZEZ/AIZyy71zZ1rbxlk!vp/SfFw035jeNDb8CkJlVzgq5+OBxzKjpA1DVgTbsnrXSNgYTWOyC7lWiSPjEkLDtuvtdJOp+frG!7j2y8UYs4r01oXS6gPIYpOVujyxh X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2008 X-Received-Body-CRC: 4044632204 X-Received-Bytes: 2251 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:49661 Date: 2017-12-27T16:47:16-05:00 List-Id: On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 21:04:26 +0100, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" 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. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/