From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2006 - 13:09:34 CST
> Cristian Secară <orice at secarica dot ro> wrote:
>
> > The ISO/IEC 6397 standard contains character 13/00 HORIZONTAL BAR. Is
> > there a known (i.e. written somewhere) Unicode correspondent for this
> > character ?
Doug Ewell responded:
>
> Since U+2015 has the same name, HORIZONTAL BAR, I assume that would be
> the correct character.
The 1999 revision of ISO 6937 aligned its character names with
ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993. Although it doesn't contain a formal
mapping between 6937 and 10646, in ISO-speak such an alignment
of names is intended to identify characters between standards.
Hence, the most correct mapping between them is:
0xD0 0x2015 # HORIZONTAL BAR (quotation dash)
> Unfortunately, that means there's an error in my 6937 converter, which
> maps 13/00 to U+2014.
Since U+2014 EM DASH is more widely supported than U+2015
HORIZONTAL BAR, particularly if transcoded to other legacy
8-bit character sets, U+2014 is a reasonable fallback conversion
for ISO 6937 13/00 (0xD0).
--Ken
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