Roman numerals support

[akarzim]

• The requested character is...
  • Latin
  • Cyrillic
  • Greek
  • Punctuation
  • Symbol
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When preparing technical documents I really appreciate to use roman numerals. Would it be possible to have these unicode character set (U+2160 to U+217F) added to Iosevka ?

Free Monospaced Font font support this character set:

Here is an example of what it might look like, based on curly "V" and "X":

[stone-zeng]

As the Unicode Standard 13.0 §22.3 says:

For most purposes, it is preferable to compose the Roman numerals from sequences of the appropriate Latin letters.

[be5invis]

I think current Unicode recommends just use Latin letters.
Add to backlog.

[akarzim]

@stone-zeng @be5invis
The problem with Latin letters is that when you sort them, the "IX" precedes the "V".

[VladimirMarkelov]

Even with set above it is impossible to sort e.g, XL, and L - the set does not include XL as well as many others, like XIII or XV. I do not think implementing a small subset makes sense for sorting. On the other hand, implementing all the Roman numbers seems too much.

[akarzim]

@VladimirMarkelov
You're right, I hadn't thought that far ahead.

[Tazshelby2016]

I recommend focusing on Ⅰ, Ⅴ, Ⅼ, Ⅽ, Ⅾ, and Ⅿ (Upper and lower). ↁ,ↂ, ↇ, ↈ, ↅ, and ↆ are considered historic characters, and the other characters are ligatures.