On 12/5/2017 1:32 PM, Ken Whistler via
Unicode wrote:
Asmus,
On 12/5/2017 12:35 PM, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
I don't know the history of this
particular "unification"
Here are some clues
Asmus,
On 12/5/2017 12:35 PM, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
I don't know the history of this particular "unification"
Here are some clues to guide further research on the history.
The annotation in question was added to a draft of the NamesList.txt
file for Unicode 4.1 on October 7,
In fact I would also remove the suggested misleading (non normative) note
in NamesList.txt about the use of the ONE LEADER DOT (it is jsut one of the
possible fallbacks but it has wrong properties for encoiding plaintext, it
is only useful as a rendering fallback, but is not even useful for that
On 12/5/2017 11:28 AM, Philippe Verdy
via Unicode wrote:
U+2024 is not supported in any fonts I have loaded.
A websearch of mijaket gives nothing.
U+20224 is used as a "leader dot", and does not match the
expected metrics (it is certainly
Note that "Noto Sans Armenian" does not even map U+2024 (I doubt it is
accepted as a real replacement for the missing Armenian mijaket which plays
a role similar to a Latin semicolon or colon), it does match the hyphen at
U+2010. But U+0589 (Armenian "versakjet", the Armenian full stop that looks
U+2024 is not supported in any fonts I have loaded. A websearch of mijaket
gives nothing.
U+20224 is used as a "leader dot", and does not match the expected metrics
(it is certainly not a mijaket, it should be more like U+0589, i.e. as a
bold parallelogram, and not a thin leader dot).
Leader
The Armenian script has its own distinctive punctuation (vertsaket) for the
standard full stop at end of sentence (whose glyph looks very much like the
Basic Latin/ASCII colon, however slighly more bold and slanted and whose
dots are rectangular). It is encoded at U+0589. And used in traditional
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