From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Thu Apr 15 2004 - 22:31:46 EDT
Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>>>00B7;MIDDLE DOT;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
>>>10101;AEGEAN WORD SEPARATOR DOT;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
>>>16EB;RUNIC SINGLE PUNCTUATION;Po;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
>>>
>>>
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>>I was meaning to ask about this. I'm all over not encoding Yet Another
>>middle dot, but I was wondering. In my research on Samaritan, I've
>>found that they frequently write (you guessed it) a middle dot to
>>separate words (they like to use space to enable them to do this cool
>>columnar writing thing). I was assuming that this could be conflated
>>with someone else's middle-dot-word-separator; would that be U+10101?
>>
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>As far as I am concerned, U+00B7 should be sufficient for that.
>
I wasn't sure if character properties or whatever made a difference,
since this is supposed to be a word separator. Whatever; I'm
sufficiently confident that THIS dot, at least, won't have to be encoded.
>Note that as part of the ongoing work to cover Greek paleographic
>needs, a large number of multiple dot punctuation characters are
>currently under ballot for addition to 10646 (and Unicode). See
>2056, 2058..205E at:
>
>http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html
>
>These are (proposed to be) encoded in the General Punctuation block to
>ensure that *everyone* is clear that their intended use is general, so we
>don't have to keep cloning more and more such dot combinations
>to handle the dot punctuation for each different paleographic
>tradition.
>
Yeah, everyone uses dots. Samaritan cantillation has various colons and
two-dot-leader looking things, and small circles... but also
combinations, like colon-line, colon-angle, stuff like that.
~mark
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