![]() (I would most likely vote support in such votes, by the way. for the text of citations), and if you want to change those, then yeah, they probably require votes. As for starting other votes - there are a few other ways that we deviate from standards (e.g., we make up our language codes we use. ![]() 15:26 z It may help to understand the background here, which is that a small number of editors have been using the modifier letters as an ad-hoc superscripting mechanism for a few years now, and the status quo has been not to argue with them too much. He's voted "oppose", which suggests that my interpretation may not be correct!) - Ruakh TALK 18:20, 22 March 2012 (UTC) Reply Confusing, isn't it? Does respecting individual guidelines in the Web's universal standards represent our status quo, or is it something we have to explicitly vote for? Shall I start a 1,000+ votes for other individual sentences and paragraphs in HTML and Unicode, so we can approve or deny each one? This vote is based on misplaced assumptions, and so is fundamentally flawed. (Or at least, I agree with how I interpret his statements. Support Prosfilaes ( talk) 13:12, 22 March 2012 (UTC) Reply.Support Option 1 (Similar-Looking Unicode Characters) Support Option 2 (Regular Letters with HTML or Other Mechanisms) WT:BP#Using_modifier_letters_for_superscript Wiktionary talk:Votes/pl-2012-02/Handling of superscript and subscript letters Vote created: -sche (discuss) 22:21, 19 February 2012 (UTC) Reply.Benedict, Modern Cantonese phonology, page 20: File:khw-superscript.jpg modifier characters The labialized-velar initials kw- and khw- have been Neither option affects the use of Unicode modifier letters to reproduce modifier letters, as in this quotation:ġ997 Robert S. Neither option affects the representation of superscript and subscript numbers, such as the one in "H 2O"/"H₂O".Voters who oppose this vote or its options, including those who favor some other option (such as representing superscripts with similar-looking characters but subscripts with HTML, or not having superscripts and subscripts at all), can vote "Oppose".Voters can also explicitly vote for the status quo, if they prefer the lack of regulation to both of the proposed regulations.If neither option attracts sufficient votes to pass, the status quo (in which there is no specific regulation one way or another) continues. If one of these two options attracts a two-thirds majority of the votes cast minus abstentions, it passes.Option 2: Use regular letters within / tags (" ty") and/or use other mechanisms to effect superscription/subscription of regular letters.Option 1: Whenever characters are available in Unicode which resemble such superscript or subscript letters, use those characters (e.g.Voting on: how to represent superscript and subscript letters, such at the "ty" and "r" in the 1856 image to the right, which are superscript/subscript letters rather than special characters such as the modifiers in the 1997 citation below.Handling of superscript and subscript letters 1.3 Support the Status Quo (Lack of Regulation).1.2 Support Option 2 (Regular Letters with HTML or Other Mechanisms). ![]() 1.1 Support Option 1 (Similar-Looking Unicode Characters). ![]()
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