At 22:36 -0500 2004-12-07, John Cowan wrote quoted Peter Kirk:
> But there is already in the pipeline a PHOENICIAN WORD SEPARATOR [...] The glyphs for
> all of these seem indistinguishable, and so are the functions. The only
> difference seems to be the scripts they are associated with, but
> punctuation marks are supposed to be not tied to individual scripts.
Read the proposal. It is not always a dot.
John said:
We already have gobs of dots. It's one of those things: on the other hand, Unicode unifies all the Indic dandas, for example.
Not for long, one hopes. And other Brahmic dandas are not unified. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
