Re: [clreq] Are double underlines used for place names? (#600)

Generally speaking, in modern orthography the double underline isn’t used in Chinese for any purpose.

The only exception is the Chinese Union Version (CUV, 和合本) of the bible, where it does distinguish between personal and geographical names. In CUV typography the double underline (really more like a very narrow rectangle) does indeed indicate geographical names.

So my guess would be the distinction was proposed around the time the CUV was typeset, and the CUV fossilized the proposal, which was later dropped from Chinese orthography.

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