From: Andrew C. West (andrewcwest@alumni.princeton.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 27 2005 - 07:24:50 CST
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:58:19 -0700 (PDT), "Andrew C. West" wrote:
>
> U+002E "FULL STOP" = dot, decimal point
> -- I might reasonably have expected "period" here
>
As someone has kindly pointed out to me "PERIOD" does appear in the code charts
for U+002E :
002E FULL STOP
= PERIOD
= dot, decimal point
* may be rendered as a raised decimal point in old style numbers
x (arabic full stop - 06D4)
x (ideographic full stop - 3002)
However, the capitalised "aliases" given in the code chart (and NamesList.txt)
are the Unicode 1 names for the character. Although the capitalised Unicode 1
names and the lowercase aliases are not formally distinguished in the code
charts or NamesList.txt other than being on separate lines, I have always
maintained a distinction between the two. Maybe I'm wrong in this, and Unicode 1
names should be considered to be character aliases, but if so then they are a
special class of alias. As Jill has pointed out, it is not easy to be sure as
there does not appear to be a public list of character aliases other than
NamesList.txt, which I suspect merges various sources (Unicode 1 names from
UnicodeData.txt and the other aliases from elsewhere).
Andrew
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