The other reason is that the middle-dot, being a punctuation, would be likely to
have extra spacing on both sides, which would make it inappropriate for
rendering Catalan words. Also such punctuation would probably forbid kerning of
the middle-dot within the open area of a uppercase L, something which would be
acceptable for reading Catalan (as it was acceptable with U+2027 in
Teletext/Videotex).
In the sample I just sent out, you'll see that 00B7 in some fonts has a rather large space on the left of the dot.
A./
