RE: [css3-fonts] subscript/superscript variants

[John Hudson:]
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> On 09/05/12 3:11 PM, Christopher Slye wrote:
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> > John, to what misunderstanding are you referring? It looks to me like
> > ordinal =E9 turns up in the real world often enough. -Christopher
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> [Note typo in my original message: it should be =E8 not =E9]
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> Ordinal =E8 shows up when people write premi=E8re as 1=E8re, but that is =
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> error, and the correct ordinal abbreviation of premi=E8re is 1re.
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> The standard French ordinal is e -- e.g. 2e, 3e. 4e, etc. -- except for
> the singular in which one needs to distinguish masculine premier and
> feminine premi=E8re, which are respectively 1er and 1re.
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If by standard you mean 'what people *should* do', sure. In practice
the use of =E8 remains common e.g. run a web search for "2=E8me".