Superscripts and Subscripts is a

Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...

containing

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and subscript numerals, mathematical operators, and letters used in mathematics and phonetics. The use of subscripts and superscripts in Unicode allows any

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and certain other

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s to be represented in plain text without using any form of markup like

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. Other superscript letters can be found in the Spacing Modifier Letters, Phonetic Extensions and Phonetic Extensions Supplement blocks, while the superscript 1, 2, and 3, inherited from

ISO 8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, ''Information technology— 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets—Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 19 ...

, were included in the Latin-1 Supplement block.

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History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Superscripts and Subscripts block:

References

{{reflist Unicode blocks Latin-script Unicode blocks

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History

See also

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