Philippe opined: > If there's something really missing for Catalan, it's a middle-dot letter with > general category "Lo", and combining class 0 (i.e. NOT combining).
The one thing for sure is that the Unicode Standard does not need to encode more middle dots: 00B7;MIDDLE DOT;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; 0701;SYRIAC SUPRALINEAR FULL STOP;Po;0;AL;;;;;N;;;;; 1427;CANADIAN SYLLABICS FINAL MIDDLE DOT;Lo;0;L;;;;;N;;;;; 22C5;DOT OPERATOR;Sm;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; 2F02;KANGXI RADICAL DOT;So;0;ON;<compat> 4E36;;;;N;;;;; 302E;HANGUL SINGLE DOT TONE MARK;Mn;224;NSM;;;;;N;;;;; 30FB;KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT;Pc;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; FE45;SESAME DOT;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; FF65;HALFWIDTH KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT;Pc;0;ON;<narrow> 30FB;;;;N;;;;; 10101;AEGEAN WORD SEPARATOR DOT;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; 1D16D;MUSICAL SYMBOL COMBINING AUGMENTATION DOT;Mc;226;L;;;;;N;;;;; 2027;HYPHENATION POINT;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; 16EB;RUNIC SINGLE PUNCTUATION;Po;0;L;;;;;N;;;;; 1802;MONGOLIAN COMMA;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;; 318D;HANGUL LETTER ARAEA;Lo;0;L;<compat> 119E;;;;N;HANGUL LETTER ALAE A;;;; 1D01B;BYZANTINE MUSICAL SYMBOL KENTIMA ARCHAION;So;0;L;;;;;N;;;;; (and that's not considering the lowered dots "FULL STOP" and the raised dots) > It's > unfortunate that almost all legacy Catalan text transcoded to > Unicode are based > on the middle-dot symbol (the one mapped in ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15) > which is > not seen by Unicode as a letter (Lo) but as a symbol only. Actually, that is *fortunate*, not unfortunate, since it is the correct conversion from 8859-1 (and Windows 1252) data. How U+00B7 behaves in Catalan data is then a matter of local *adaptation* of software for the correct handling of the Catalan language. Note that while the particular combination <006C, 00B7, 006C> is a peculiarity of Catalan orthography, U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT (often called a 'raised period') is very widely used, indeed, in technical orthographies for many languages, particularly in the Americas, where it is used much more commonly than the IPA characters U+02D0 MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON or U+02D1 MODIFIER LETTER HALF TRIANGULAR COLON to indicate vocalic (or less commonly, consonantal) length. Obsessing about the behavior of U+00B7 in Catalan data while ignoring its use as a vowel length indicator in many, many other orthographies is rather pointless, it seems to me. --Ken
