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TorKlingberg
on Nov 19, 2014
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Does anyone know why there are separate Unicode code points for letters in bold, bold italic and Fraktur? Normally this sort of thing should be handled by different fonts / font variants. Is it for compatibility with some legacy encoding?
rossy
on Nov 19, 2014
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They're mathematical symbols. I guess they're for situations where, say, a double-struck letter has a different meaning to the regular letter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symbo...
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