Newbie question about text encoding

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:03 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> What I was trying to say expanded here
> http://blog.languager.org/2015/03/whimsical-unicode.html
> [Hope  the word 'whimsical' is less jarring and more accurate than 'gibberish']

Re footnote #4: ½ is a single character for compatibility reasons.
⅟₁₀₀ doesn't need to be a single character, because there are
countably infinite vulgar fractions and only 0x110000 Unicode
characters.

ChrisA