[clreq] Low line or underline?

r12a has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/clreq:

== Low line or underline? ==
Indicator Punctuation Marks > Fullwidth low line
https://www.w3.org/TR/clreq/#indication_punctuation_marks

> U+FF3F FULLWIDTH LOW LINE [＿] is positioned underneath proper nouns 
such as a person's name, the name of a place, etc. 

This doesn't seem right to me, not least because U+FF3F is not a 
combining character.  I think what we are actually talking about is 
underline, isn't it?  (in which case this subsection about fullwidth 
low line should be moved to a new location)

My understanding is that the `u` tag in HTML is designated as the way 
to indicate such lines below text, again making me think that this is 
actually a type of underlining.

The note that follows indicates that a 'wavy low line' is sometimes 
used.  Does that look like a combining character (for which i couldn't
 find anything in Unicode on a quick search), or like a wavy line (in 
which case it's a type of underline that CSS could specify)? (It would
 help to have a picture of it in clreq.)

Please view or discuss this issue at 
https://github.com/w3c/clreq/issues/115 using your GitHub account

Received on Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:44:07 UTC