From: Elliotte Harold (elharo@metalab.unc.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 20 2006 - 05:59:51 CST
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Thus, far from making the horizontal character unusable, this raises
> the question whether the four-dots ellipsis should be coded, too.
I'd argue no. I don't believe there is such a character. The four dot
ellipsis has always been explained to me as a regular three dot ellipsis
followed by a period. The rules for its use support that. It only
appears at the end of a sentence. The ellipsis and the period are two
separate punctuation marks which occasionally fall next to each other.
Encoding a four dot ellipsis would be like encoding ?" or !" as a single
character.
I also think its important to be able to recognize periods in plain
text, using four dot ellipses would make that harder.
The only justification for four dot ellipses is glyph matching, and
Unicode has never been a glyph encoding standard.
-- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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