From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Wed Jan 04 2006 - 21:44:03 CST
This is a forwarded message:
> From: António Martins-Tuválkin <antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt>
> To: fotw-editors@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 1:34:13 PM
> Subject: [fotw-editors] Slash, a shady character
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Our page < http://flagspot.net/flags/ca-qc-02.html > includes in its
title (H1 and TITLE, as usual) the character "∕" (Unicode's
U+2215 : DIVISION SLASH) instead of a regular slash, "/" (Unicode's
U+002F : SOLIDUS).
This character is intended solely for mathematical use and in this page
it should be replaced back to the regular slash, which is the correct
character for non-mathematical use, in things such as "and/or", "Turku /
Åbo" etc. As it is, "Saguenay∕Lac-Saint-Jean" means "Saguenay
divided by Lac-Saint-Jean".
(FWIW, there's a second mathematical slash — "⁄", Unicode's
U+2044 : FRACTION SLASH. This one, though misleadingly put in the
Unicode block called General Punctuation, is even more geared to
exclusive mathematical use, typographically speaking, as it is supposed
to use superscript and subscript digits, forming one-glyph fractions.)
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