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Historical reasons of footnotes' sequence symbols

As @Mahnax answered to this question, the footnotes' sequence symbols is as follows (Chicago Manual of Style Online): * (asterisk; but do not use if p values occur in the table; see 3.78) † ...
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Do footnoting superscripts go inside or outside punctuation?

When using superscripts to indicate a footnote, do these fall inside or outside adjacent punctuation? If there is an answer, is that answer applicable worldwide, or just to specific regions or ...