So I've been doing some very close reading of the Po and So categories, and
there are a few things that aren't making sense to me. I was wondering why
is:
- per cent, per mille, per ten thousand classified as Other Punctuation
(Po) not as Other Symbol (So)?
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0025/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2030/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2031/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/066a/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0609/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/060a/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fe6a/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ff05/
- number sign, ampersand, and commercial at classified as Other Punctuation
(Po), not Other Symbol (So)?
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0023/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0026/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0040/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fe5f/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fe60/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fe6b/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ff03/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ff06/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ff20/
These characters each symbolize a concept, and are not used as punctuation
(except maybe in URLs, but that shouldn't count). So why are they punctuation
and not symbols?
- music sharp classified as Mathematical Symbol (Sm) not Other Symbol (So),
while music flat is So, not Sm?
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/266f/
- certain white triangles are classified as Mathematical Symbol (Sm)
while their corresponding black triangles are classified as Other
Symbol (So)?
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25b7/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25b8/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25c1/
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25c2/
These just seem really inconsistent...
~fantasai
