Re: ,,semi-virgula''

From: Janusz S. Bień (jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl)
Date: Mon Sep 06 2010 - 02:10:11 CDT

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Thanks for all the comments.

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) wrote:

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> First, is "semivirgula" a good name? Google shows that it often refers
> to semicolon. "Caudatum" seems to me even more misleading because it
> should refer simply to ogonek (to the best of my knowledge, the
> distinction caudatum/ogonek is made only internally by the editors of
> the dictionary of 16th century Polish).

As no other name has been proposed, I will stick for the time being to
"semivirgula".

As for the encoding question, I have not yet reached a conclusion.

Best regards

JSB

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