Michael Everson wrote:
On 18 Sep 2010, at 20:23, Asmus Freytag wrote:
Why not use the character that was added to Unicode precisely for
the purpose?
Seems like that character needs an annotation, doesn't it?
It depends on the annotation policy, which is somewhat unclear to me.
The standard itself is very explicit about the character:
“Hyphenation Point. U+2027 hyphenation point is a raised dot used to
indicate correct word breaking, as in dic·tion·ar·ies. It is a punctuation
mark, to be distinguished from U+00B7 middle dot, which has multiple
semantics.”
http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch06.pdf#page=18
However, it is not easy to find such statements when you are interested in a
particular character and do not wish to read through the entire standard.
The standard would greatly benefit from cross references between its prose
text and the character charts.
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