Re: Decimal key on European keyboard layouts

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote on 2002-12-13 10:13 UTC:
> Looking at the unicode charts (especially the character name index
> 	http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html
> ) I see that ASCII dot 0x2E has become Unicode 0x002E "Decimal Point"
> and ASCII comma 0x2C has become 0x002C "decimal separator".
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf
> renders these in the English way, not the continental one you desire.

U+002E = FULL STOP
U+002C = COMMA

There is no question at all in Unicode about how these two characters
have to be rendered. Their rendering is locale independent.

There was discussion long ago about adding a "decimal separator"
character to Unicode, but the idea was considered unnecessary and
confusing and therefore dropped. ISO has in the past suggested to use a
tiny downwards-facing triangle that is around the size of a full stop or
comma as a culturally neutral glyph for a decimal separator key, but
that too has not caught on.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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