> using capital i as roman numeral lookalike (instead of unicode) theirs

At least that much is correct. Quoth the Unicode Standard:

> For most purposes, it is preferable to compose the Roman numerals from sequences of the appropriate Latin letters.

[from https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/ch15.pdf]

Note that Unicode has a lot of characters like this — compatibility forms which are present to allow lossless conversion to/from other character sets, but shouldn’t be used in any new text.

Honestly I had no idea there were Unicode characters for Roman numerals separate from the letters they are composed of.

> separate from the letters they are composed of

I didn't actually realise they're letters. To me it's distinct symbols just like 0 is a distinct ascii symbol from O.

Now that you mention it, I realise that I knew that five is V and M is a thousand or something, but the symbol for one/1, is that actually defined as a capital i and not just a line of some form? Since surely the digit for one came before the latin script

Latin (and ancient Greek) didn't have dedicated symbols for numbers, but at sone point the Romans started using a shorthand system based on existing alphabetic symbols, which we now call "Roman numerals".

It's quite possible the "I"s started out as just a line to mark one item before the shorthand was developed, but certainly over time it became identified to capital "I".

Same. You learn something new every day, eh?

You have a bad browser/PDF viewer. The "spacing" issues are a result of using small caps as a title style, which is hardly unusual - especially in legal documents.

This is both visually accurate and not a forced download for me using Safari.

I blame the document format. No "bad" browser/viewer would put random spaces in in the middle of a word when using HTML, OpenDocument, LaTeX, or I imagine anything but the OCR-like processing that you have to do when trying to interpret a PDF file. If they wanted it to be accessible, they could have chosen a different format, or to make it compatible with the most popular freely available reader. Not sure what specifically they want me to use?

> Warning: not just pdf, but forced download. Have fun cleaning up your downloads folder...

Not if you configure your browser correctly? Why would you allow random sites to save files without even prompting you for it?

Because I don't want the file dialog asking me to manually choose save it or cancel the download...

Chrome iirc popularised automatic downloading for all file types but I'm using Firefox.

What browser do you use that has a "force inline viewing of downloads rather than downloading them" option? I'd like that

Edit: wait, this server doesn't actually send the content-disposition:attachment header. Why doesn't Firefox download this to /tmp/mozilla_${USER}0 and open the default viewer as it does for other files that aren't downloads?!

Because it's the regrettable default these days and 90% of people probably don't know how to change it. Convenience beats security, again.