Re: "superscript" asterisk is gone!

:A ⃰:
Charles E Campbell wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I had been using a space (hex: 32) followed by a composing character
> (hex: 20f0) to get a superscript asterisk. I no longer see the
> "superscript" asterisk.
>
> * I did an o/s upgrade in the past 6 months or so, and so that could be
> why the "superscript asterisk" is no longer visible
> * possibly vim has been "upgraded" so that the "superscript asterisk" is
> no longer visible
>
> I used it, as an example, in comments to indicate that a
> conjugate-transpose of a matrix was indicated: A* (except that the
> asterisk was superscripted): A ⃰ (I put it into the browser just before
> this parenthesized text, and I can see it via seamonkey).
>
> Any ideas as to what's going on, and can it be fixed?
>
> Regards,
> Chip Campbell
>
> P.S. With gvim, I use set guifont=Luxi\ Mono\ Bold\ 11 , in case its a
> font issue. Haven't changed that font in a looong time.
>
Odd, this has been bothering me for awhile, but I just found an
additional thing about it: a ctrl-L will (sometimes) cause the
superscript-asterisk to appear (see the "supast" attachment for an example).

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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