From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2007 - 07:55:19 CST
Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela at cs dot tut dot fi> wrote:
>> I always thought the convention of using a double hyphen to indicate
>> line-splitting hyphenation at a point where lexeme-joining
>> hyphenation would have occurred anyway was a simply brilliant idea,
>> one I wish were in more widespread use.
> ...
> Anyway, Unicode is about characters that are used, rather than
> characters that should be used.
Sorry, I probably should have been more clear that I was talking about
the concept of double hyphen itself, not whether it should be encoded.
Jukka is absolutely right about this.
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