Eric,
> U+0140 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MIDDLE DOT is intended to be used in
> Catalan ('Å€l' is pronounced as two separate 'l' while 'll' is pronounced
> as in 'million'). However, it seems that neither Yahoo nor Google use
> that character in their own pages; similarly for an online newspaper
> (http://www.vilaweb.com), but I don't know how "serious" they are.
>
> Instead, everybody seems to use U+006C U+00B7 U+006C. Is that the
> preferred encoding for Catalan?
I would think so. There is no particular reason to use the
l· as a single character, when all the 8859-based and Windows 1252
implementations would be using U+00B7 for the middle dot.
Consider U+0140 as effectively a compatibility character for
ISO 6937. It is mapped to 0xF7 in that standard. It is also
mapped to 0xA9A8 in Code Page 949 (Korean) -- which probably got
it from ISO 6937 in the first place.
>
> Is U+0140 used in other languages?
Not that I know of.
--Ken
>
> Thanks,
> Eric.
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