Re: Shouldn't U+2800 (braille pattern blank) be a separator and space?

From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Sun Mar 26 2006 - 11:46:57 CST

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    On 2006.03.26, 14:21, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@labri.fr> wrote:

    > U+2800 (braille pattern blank) is currently a "symbol, other"
    > character. I would have thought it would be a "separator, space"
    > character, since it is visually a spacing separator. What do people
    > think?

    IMHO, I think you are right. A very similar character, typographically
    speaking, the U+3000 : IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE, has indeed general category of
    "Zs [Separator, Space]". I can't see how U+2800 would be any different.

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