Re: U+0140 Catalan middle-dot

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Apr 16 2004 - 14:31:32 EDT

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    At 06:16 PM 4/15/2004, Philippe Verdy wrote:
    >The other reason is that the middle-dot, being a punctuation, would be
    >likely to
    >have extra spacing on both sides, which would make it inappropriate for
    >rendering Catalan words. Also such punctuation would probably forbid
    >kerning of
    >the middle-dot within the open area of a uppercase L, something which would be
    >acceptable for reading Catalan (as it was acceptable with U+2027 in
    >Teletext/Videotex).

    In the sample I just sent out, you'll see that 00B7 in some fonts has a
    rather large space on the left of the dot.

    A./



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