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Missing U+2154 Fraction Two Thirds 2/3
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:
Thank you.
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.
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.