Re: U+0140

[John Hudson]

Peter Constable wrote:

And if... someone finds a well documented script
in which a true middle dot and an x-height dot are used contrastively,
That would be a somewhat surprising and not-to-be-recommended design for
a writing system. Not to be completely ruled out, though. But we can
probably wait to cross that encoding bridge when we come to it.
We already have conrasted use of a baseline dot (period or full stop) and a mid-dot (word 
separator or stylistic hyphen), so why would you be surprised by contrasted use of mid-dot 
and x-height dot? Vertical alignment is clearly sometimes a semantic feature. I've seen 
plenty of business cards in which the mid-dot is used as a stylistic division between 
parts of a telephone number instead of spaces, periods or hyphens. I don't like the style, 
but people do it. Presumably some Greek people do it also, in which case they are 
contrasting the mid-dot and the ano teleia.

John Hudson

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