Newbie question about text encoding

[Rustom Mody]

On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 12:14:11 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:03 AM, Rustom Mody 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 ...
  ^^^

Neat 
Thanks
[And figured out some of quopri module along the way figuring that out]