On 15 déc. 2011, at 20:34, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> Not particularly relevant. The "full stop" or "period" that ends a sentence 
> is semantically different from the "decimal point" that punctuates numbers. 
> That doesn't mean we have separate character codes for them. From a 
> character-encoding point of view, they're the same character; they just 
> happen to have multiple uses.

Indeed, but we continue to think that we have digitized our texts when all we 
have done is to digitize a few character forms. We are footling around in the 
dark ages.

AB


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