- From: Mark Davis <mark.davis@icu-project.org>
- Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:39:27 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
I think the best option is on first mention to say either "period (full stop)" or "full stop (period)". Mark L. David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 2006-01-24 19:34 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote: > >> On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 ishida@w3.org wrote: >> >>> Comment: You use the name "period" for the character U+002E, which is >>> the Unicode 1.0 name for "full stop". You might change the naming or >>> make the reference to the Unicode version for this naming explicit. >>> >> This is an official comment on behalf of the CSS working group. >> >> I've made this change: >> >> -<p>Working with HTML, authors may use the period (U+002E, >> -<code>.</code>) notation as an alternative to the <code>~=</code> >> +<p>Working with HTML, authors may use the "full stop" notation >> +(U+002E, <code>.</code>) as an alternative to the <code>~=</code> >> notation when representing the <code>class</code> attribute. Thus, for >> HTML, <code>div.value</code> and <code>div[class~=value]</code> have >> the same meaning. The attribute value must immediately follow the >> -"period" (<code>.</code>).</p> >> +"full stop" (<code>.</code>).</p> >> >> Please let us know if this does not satisfy your request. >> > > I'm actually opposed to this change. If the official language of W3C > specs is US English, it should remain "period". I suspect many, if not > most, US readers are unfamiliar with the term "full stop" as referring > to a punctuation mark. (I do distinctly remember being puzzled when > reading a text [1] that referred to "full stop" and (I think) "pause" as > marks of punctuation and eventually figuring out that it was referring > to what I called "period" and "comma". I suspect that memory is from > when I was in high school, or perhaps even college.) I'm not sure what > percentage of UK readers are familiar with the term period, though. > > -David > > [1] It may have been H. W. Fowler's The King's English. > >
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