From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Fri Apr 16 2004 - 04:40:44 EDT
On 15/04/2004 18:16, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> ...
>
>The Catalan middle-dot is a plain orthographic letter and should be treated as
>such, and not by borrowing a punctuation sign or symbol which may have other
>conflicting uses. What I suggested is that the general category, despite its
>weak definition, is still a good indicator of which character to use.
>
>So U+2027 (as well as the U+013F middle-dot found in ISO-8859-1/15) is not the
>exact character to represent this middle dot in all usages, ...
>
Philippe, before jumping to this conclusion, please can you describe to
me EXACTLY how the shape and behaviour of the Catalan middle dot differs
from the behaviour of U+2027 defined in Unicode Standard Annex #14,
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/reports/tr14/tr14-15.html:
> 2027
>
>
>
> HYPHENATION POINT
>
> A hyphenation point is a raised dot, which is used primarily to
> visibly indicate syllabification of words. Syllable breaks are
> potential line break opportunities in the middle of words. It is
> mainly used in dictionaries and similar works. When an actual line
> break falls inside a word containing hyphenation point characters, the
> hyphenation point is rendered as a regular hyphen at the end of the line.
>
Please don't waste our time with further discussion of how various
dictionaries indicate syllable breaks, especially when they don't use
U+2027 at all, but rather a vertical line i.e. a quite different character.
From the descriptions which you and Anto'nio have provided and from
http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb16-3/tb48vali.pdf, it seems to me
that the Catalan behaviour is exactly as described for U+2027 in USA
#14, perhaps because the Catalan usage has been borrowed from dictionary
usage or vice versa. This strongly suggests that U+2027 is the
appropriate character for Catalan.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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