> in fact all the variant greek letters (that i am familiar with)
> *do* have distinct unicodes.  the problem of how they'll actually
> be used still remains.

See for example
http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/1D7.html
part of the MathML2 spec (which became a W3C Recommendation on
Wednesday)

David

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