Re: Connector Punctuation and Overlines

From: Jeremie Hornus <jeremie_at_hornus.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:42:39 +0100

Hi fantasai,

A page from the unicode website says the categories idea has been withdrawn (and never formally approved):
http://unicode.org/reports/tr49/

So, I think it's an "attempt".

J.

On 7 Mar 2012, at 05:27, fantasai wrote:

> Unicode has a Pc category into which it assigns various low lines:
>
> _ U+005F LOW LINE
> ‿ U+203F UNDERTIE
> ⁀ U+2040 CHARACTER TIE
> ⁔ U+2054 INVERTED UNDERTIE
> ︳ U+FE33 PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LOW LINE
> ︴ U+FE34 PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL WAVY LOW LINE
> ﹍ U+FE4D DASHED LOW LINE
> ﹎ U+FE4E CENTRELINE LOW LINE
> ﹏ U+FE4F WAVY LOW LINE
> _ U+FF3F FULLWIDTH LOW LINE
>
>
> However, the overlines that are almost exactly the same thing, are categorized as Po:
>
> ‾ U+203E OVERLINE
> ﹉ U+FE49 DASHED OVERLINE
> ﹊ U+FE4A CENTRELINE OVERLINE
> ﹋ U+FE4B WAVY OVERLINE
> ﹌ U+FE4C DOUBLE WAVY OVERLINE
>
> Is this a bug or a feature? :) Shouldn't they be Pc?
>
> ~fantasai
>
>
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