No appropriate code point for some Chinese punctuation marks

2012-07-22 Thread Gary Kilfear
As a matter of fact, the situation of Chinese punctuation marks is a mess. Until now we do not have independant symbols for Chinese dashes, ellipsis, interpunct in Unicode. In practice, we use three kinds of dashes in Chinese: one is halfwidth, corresponding to the Latin hyphen symbol; one is

Re: No appropriate code point for some Chinese punctuation marks

2012-07-22 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 7/22/2012 7:08 AM, Gary Kilfear wrote: should we submit a proposal for these Chinese punctuation? My take is that a proposal, with its requirements for evidence and samples, it the best way to systematically capture and collect the information. Once everything is on the table, UTC will

Re: No appropriate code point for some Chinese punctuation marks

2012-07-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 09:43:29AM -0700, Asmus Freytag wrote: Especially in multiscript environment, and those are not that rare, really, it's almost impossible to get such unfications to behave correctly without explicit font binding. And we all know that control of that is elusive in many