- From: 梁海 Liang Hai via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 19:40:20 +0000
- To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
It's still there. It's really confusing to use multiple names to refer
to these punctuations.
Basically, in Sanskrit, "।" is called _virāma_ ("stop"; sometimes
_ardhavirām_, "half stop") and "॥" _pūrṇavirāma_ ("full stop"). Such
usage-based names naturally get ambiguous when their usage changes,
eg, in modern Hind text only "।" is used like western "." to terminate
sentences (thus, full stop), and "," inside sentences.
I can understand it's Hindi's usage that led to such statement
confusing to anyone who knows multiple Indic languages:
> In case of Devanagari phrase separator called **Danda** or
**purnaviram** (।) and **double danda** (।।: used to mark end of the
verse)…
Can we just use Unicode names or shape-based (instead of usage-based)
names in such cases to reduce ambiguity? In such a doc that discusses
multiple languages (which often have conflicting ways of naming
things), it's important to stick a clear defined set of terminology.
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