https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-no-character-for-superscript-q-in-UnicodeI understand why there is no "q" in Unicode (thanks
@Thomas Phinney for your past insight). But, why is the minuscule <q> superscript missing from those fonts that include other the other a–z forms? Equally, why do some fonts only include superscript 1–3, leaving 4–9 and 0?
Thanks!
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Similarly, those fonts that include only a partial set of superior letters are often those born in the legacy era of expert fonts, where one typically only bothered with a subset that Adobe (I think) determined to cover the major ordinal designations — adehilmnorst, if I recall correctly.
So much for my recollection. I’ll blame advancing age. ;-)
In theory every letter could be superscripted, including accented letters or additional letters. One could make an inventory of all the various superscript letters that have been used but authors will always make new cases, so it may make more sense to just assume this is a productive system. Depending on the scope of the font, for example for a scholarly font, it may make sense to support this system and design superscript for every letter.