Greek question mark and english semicolon

[Dimitris Glezos]

The preferred character for the greek question mark is 003B (english 
semicolon), and this is not an advice of the operating systems engineers 
but of the Unicode charset.

Thus, the rendering engine of the operating system may as well 
substitute the 037E character with the 003B character, even if there is 
a glyph available, since the two characters are canonically equivalent 
as Vasilis said.


U+037E GREEK QUESTION MARK
Notes:
  • sentence-final punctuation
  • U+003B SEMICOLON is the preferred character
Equivalents:
  • U+003B SEMICOLON semicolon


U+003B SEMICOLON
Notes:
  • this, and not U+037E GREEK QUESTION MARK, is the preferred character 
for 'Greek question mark'


Dim



Vasilis Vasaitis wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:13:52AM +0200, John Salatas wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>just noticed that in the Unicode character table there is a special character 
>>(037E) for the Greek quotation mark.
>>Under X Windows (and also in other Operating Systems) this character is not in 
>>use (am I correct?) but is used the equivalent English semicolon (003B).
>>Is this a bug or is intentionally this way?
> 
> 
>   It's quite intentional. This character is a canonical equivalent
> with the semicolon character; this means that, for all uses, the two
> are considered the same character. So there isn't much point in using
> it; it's probably there only for backwards compatibility with some
> existing legacy character set or something.
> 
> 
>>Please, if possible reply in English.
>>
>>Thank you.
> 
> 
> 

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