- From: <Peter_Constable@sil.org>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:53:30 -0500
- To: www-international@w3.org
On 08/26/2001 10:31:02 AM Chris Lilley wrote: >> My question is this. Is PERIOD outdated? > >No. This may be misleading, and so deserves some clarification: what Mark, Mike and Martin have all said is correct. This is a valid alias, but is not preferred among other aliases. It is upper cased in order to reflect that it was the normative name in Unicode 1.0. As a normative name for the character, PERIOD is outdated. As merely an alias, however, it is still valid. >> Is it correct to refer to this >> character (.) as "full stop, dot, or decimal point, and NOT period"? >> (Or is PERIOD capitalized to show it is the best alias?) > >It is capitalized to show trhat it is the preferred name, yes. No, that is not correct. It is capitalised only to show that it used to be the normative name in Unicode 1.0. That is all that the capitalisation means. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: <peter_constable@sil.org>
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