Re: U+007E and U+02DC

2001-06-12 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Patrick Andries asked: > The Unicode Standard 3.0 (page 149) says that U+007E can be used as a > Spacing Clone of Combining Tilde. But isn't it this the function of U+02DC > (the so called "SMALL TILDE") ? Why suggest this usage then and not point to > U+02DC ? > > Could one say (as some typogra

U+007E and U+02DC

2001-06-12 Thread Patrick Andries
The Unicode Standard 3.0 (page 149) says that U+007E can be used as a Spacing Clone of Combining Tilde. But isn't it this the function of U+02DC (the so called "SMALL TILDE") ? Why suggest this usage then and not point to U+02DC ? Could one say (as some typographers see it) that U+007E should fo