Talk:12e Régiment blindé du Canada

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The character ᵉ (modifier letter small e) is not supported on many platforms, and it won't be recognized by search engines as an e: after Google reindexes this page, a search for "12e" won't return this page in the search results. In fact, for this and other reasons, the World Wide Web Consortium and the Unicode Consortium have deprecated this character and other superscript characters on the WWW, recommending superscript markup instead (see Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages. Therefore I am reverting &#7497 to ^e. Indefatigable 00:35, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

That W3 document looks like a useful reference, which I haven't seen before. I'm suggesting leaving it un-superscripted "12e", since the superscript in this case is simply a style decision and carries no meaning. The regular letter e works fine, and doesn't cause ugly line space to be added above. —Michael Z. 2005-04-17 00:49 Z