I wasn't sure if character properties or whatever made a difference, since this is supposed to be a word separator. Whatever; I'm sufficiently confident that THIS dot, at least, won't have to be encoded.00B7;MIDDLE DOT;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
10101;AEGEAN WORD SEPARATOR DOT;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
16EB;RUNIC SINGLE PUNCTUATION;Po;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
I was meaning to ask about this. I'm all over not encoding Yet Another middle dot, but I was wondering. In my research on Samaritan, I've found that they frequently write (you guessed it) a middle dot to separate words (they like to use space to enable them to do this cool columnar writing thing). I was assuming that this could be conflated with someone else's middle-dot-word-separator; would that be U+10101?
As far as I am concerned, U+00B7 should be sufficient for that.
Yeah, everyone uses dots. Samaritan cantillation has various colons and two-dot-leader looking things, and small circles... but also combinations, like colon-line, colon-angle, stuff like that.Note that as part of the ongoing work to cover Greek paleographic needs, a large number of multiple dot punctuation characters are currently under ballot for addition to 10646 (and Unicode). See 2056, 2058..205E at:
http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html
These are (proposed to be) encoded in the General Punctuation block to ensure that *everyone* is clear that their intended use is general, so we
don't have to keep cloning more and more such dot combinations
to handle the dot punctuation for each different paleographic
tradition.
~mark
