A question

[jmucchiello]

Unicode doesn't help as mathematical formulas are not straight lines of text. Unicode assumes text is only moving in a straight line (that line can be left-to-right, right-to-left or even up-to-down, but it has to be straight). Theoretically there is MathML, but I don't know what support is like outside of Firefox and even then, it isn't fully supported in Firefox.
www.w3.org/Math/
www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/