On 11/30/2010 11:53 AM, Bogdan Butnaru wrote: > 2) Use of the hyphen to separate date components is not only > *extremely* common, it is AFAIK dictated by the ISO8601 standard (and > many standards based on it, including XQuery (personal experience), > and now that I think of it pretty much all programming languages I've > ever used that even had a date data-type). I'm all for fancy > typography when it is *standard*, but in this case we would > deliberately ignore standard usage.
ISO 8601 actually specifies a hyphen[1], and notes that for ISO/IEC 646 (i.e. ASCII, basically) this would be mapped to the hyphen-minus. It makes no comment about Unicode/ISO 10646. Relevant quotation from ISO 8601: In representations the following characters are used as separators: [-] (hyphen): to separate the time elements “year” and “month”, “year” and “week”, “year” and “day”, “month” and “day”, and “week” and “day” … In an environment where use is made of a character repertoire based on ISO/IEC 646, “hyphen” and “minus” are both mapped onto “hyphen-minus”. However, Musicbrainz is not such an environment so that doesn’t necessarily apply. One logical interpretation would be that ISO 10646 environments like MB should use the hyphen character, U+2010. Either way, it sounds like if we want to stick with literal ISO-8601 we need to use either hyphen-minus or a true hyphen. —Alex Mauer “hawke” _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
