Re: Character list for European and Canadian use in the revised keyboard standard ISO/IEC 9995-3, supplementing MES-1

From: =?windows-1250?Q?António MARTINS-Tuválkin?= (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2008 - 06:57:09 CDT

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On 2008.09.17, 23:46, Karl Pentzlin <karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de> wrote:

> U+204A TIRONIAN SIGN ET
> (besides common Gaelic use, also used in Fraktur for the
> "et" in the abbreviation "etc."; then commonly misnomed as
> "r rotunda" because its similarity to that medieval glyph
> variant of "r")

You mean its similarity to U+A75B LATIN SMALL LETTER R ROTUNDA?

> C. "Nice to have" (if there are gaps left):
> ========================================
<...>
> Special hyphens and spaces:
> U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
> U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
> U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN

U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN, in conjuction with U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN, are
*absolutely mandatory* to spell / typeset correct Portuguese. Users rely
costumarily on specific software shortcuts (in MS Word: Shift-Ctrl-hyphen
and Ctrl-hyphen, in InDesign: Shift-Alt-Ctrl-hyphen and Shift-Ctrl-hyphen,
etc.).

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