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Missing U+2154 Fraction Two Thirds 2/3

Open silomia opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

Hello, We find the most common fractions: ½ ¼ ¾ ⅓ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ but, surprisingly, ⅔ (Unicode U+2154) is missing. As ⅓ is here, ⅔ should be there also. Can you please add it for a next release? Below, ⅔ is replaced by a system font: two-third-missing Thank you.

silomia avatar Apr 10 '20 20:04 silomia

I’ll consider it. Inter intentionally only implements the most common fractions as dedicated glyphs and then provides a frac feature for composing almost any imaginable fractions.

rsms avatar May 08 '20 16:05 rsms

The argument of most common fractions omitting 2/3 doesn't make sense to me. Including the full range of /2, /4, and /8 denominators and excluding the obscure 1/7, 1/9, and 1/10 glyphs makes sense. Including 1/3 but excluding 2/3, and including 5/6 but excluding 1/6 seems inconsistent.

Granted, not many font faces include the U+215x range. Among some on PC that do, Arial includes the /3 and /8 denominators; Calibri, Cambria Math, and Consolas /3 /5 /6 /8; and Segoe UI and Times New Roman the whole range. But none includes only the partial range of a denominator.

MDN shows broad support for CSS property font-feature-settings, so using frac works fine for web. The problem I foresee is when choosing which glyph to publish when designing for a font-stack or text expected to be copied to another program. 1/3 and 2/3 wouldn't maintain uniformity because of the way they have to be expressed.

alexma418 avatar Dec 14 '21 13:12 alexma418