Le jeu 19/12/2002 à 15:55, Markus Kuhn a écrit : > Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote on 2002-12-13 10:13 UTC: > > Looking at the unicode charts (especially the character name index > > http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html > > ) I see that ASCII dot 0x2E has become Unicode 0x002E "Decimal Point" > > and ASCII comma 0x2C has become 0x002C "decimal separator". > > http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf > > renders these in the English way, not the continental one you desire. > > U+002E = FULL STOP > U+002C = COMMA > > There is no question at all in Unicode about how these two characters > have to be rendered. Their rendering is locale independent. > > There was discussion long ago about adding a "decimal separator" > character to Unicode, but the idea was considered unnecessary and > confusing and therefore dropped. ISO has in the past suggested to use a > tiny downwards-facing triangle that is around the size of a full stop or > comma as a culturally neutral glyph for a decimal separator key, but > that too has not caught on.
How would one define a four-level <KPDL> in a layout then so the first two states are a decimal point (what's printed on the key here) and the two others the locale decimal separator (comma for us) ? Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
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