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by floatingatoll 1751 days ago
None of those are superscripted at all, except for the doubled daggers, and few people will recognize any of them as signifying footnotes. You're not wrong that they're what typesetters would use, but for a post on HN, I'd personally just use ^^^^ instead of ΒΆ. I'm really sad Unicode chose not to allow superscript ZWJ.

^ one

^^ two

^^^ three

^^^^ four