On 2004.03.26, 23:37, Rick McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Unicode Technical Committee has posted new issues for public > review and comment. Details are on the following web page:
I just added the following to the On-Line Report Form: > U+0140 : LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MIDDLE DOT, approx. similar to > U+006C U+00B7, is said to be used for Catalan. That is not correct. > Catalan usual orthography uses a regular middle dot to separate two > "L"s in those cases where they are pronounced as a single one, > doubled only for etymological reasons. > > This dot is not connected to the previous "L" in any way, as if it > were some kind of diacritical. It is a standalone character -- akin > to the hyphen in French or Portuguese. > > This becomes evident when composing with extra-space between > letters: there is no "tie" between the first "L" and the dot. > > Using this character for Catalan texts additionally causes > hyphenation problems. > > The whole issue is further obnubilated by the disregard and poor > knowledge of Catalan at the typical Madrid-based national bodies > concerned, and by the fact that some dialects of Catalan do not > distinguish in speech the graphemes "L", "LL" and "L�L". > > Though it was originally intended to cover Catalan, U+0140 could > have been used meanwhile for other orthographies � and it even may > have been used to set Catalan texts, however incorrectly. It should > therefore not be deprecated. > > However I advise removal of the note "Catalan" under U+0140 and > U+013F, and perhaps replacement of the whole note with �for Catalan > use U+006C U+00B7� (resp. U+004C). No major blunder, I hope. -- ____. Ant�nio MARTINS-Tuv�lkin | ()| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |####| PT-1XXX-XXX LISBOA N�o me invejo de quem tem | +351 934 821 700 carros, parelhas e montes | http://www.tuvalkin.web.pt/bandeira/ s� me invejo de quem bebe | http://pagina.de/bandeiras/ a �gua em todas as fontes |
