Re: U+0140

From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Fri Apr 16 2004 - 12:19:13 CST


On 2004.04.15, 19:47, Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com> wrote:

> 0140;LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MIDDLE DOT;Ll;0;L;<compat> 006C 00B7;...
<...>
> The character *was* in ISO 6937 for Catalan.

And mistakenly so.

> Noting the Catalan association in the Unicode names list is
> different from any recommendation that U+0140 is the preferred
> character for the representation of l followed by a middle dot in
> Catalan text.

But it is surely an excellent way to contribute to the (false) idea
that Unicode doesn't serve the need of minority languages. :-( Is it
so difficult to replace or remove that misleading indication?...

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