On 06/12/2004 22:41, E. Keown wrote:
I notice that Elaine is here proposing a HEBREW SAMARITAN PUNCTUATION WORD DIVIDER - and this should be in the BMP as Samaritan is a script in modern list. But there is already in the pipeline a PHOENICIAN WORD SEPARATOR, provisionally U+1091F, and already defined U+10101 AEGEAN WORD SEPARATOR DOT, and also of course U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT. The glyphs for all of these seem indistinguishable, and so are the functions. The only difference seems to be the scripts they are associated with, but punctuation marks are supposed to be not tied to individual scripts....
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Proposal to add Samaritan Pointing to the UCS
http://www.lashonkodesh.org/samarpro.pdf
WG2 number: N2748
Is there really a need for so many almost identical word divider dots? Can't they be unified? Is there a good reason not to use U+00B7 for all of these? There might be a need to tailor word breaks and line break opportunities. Directionality should not be a problem as it should come from the context. But is there really a sufficiently strong argument for this multiplication of dots?
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