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A
proposal for subranges within the Private Use Area
of Unicode:
Supplements to the Latin alphabet for Medieval
texts
Subrange
6. Punctuation marks: E500 - E5FF
This range
includes those question marks that are not included
in the official Unicode ranges. The common marks,
such as full stop, comma, colon, semicolon,
question mark, hyphen and solidus, are all found in
Unicode 3.2 Basic
Latin.
The question mark
has several quite distinctive shapes in Medieval
script. One form resembles an eternity symbol
(lying 8) with dot below, another form a tilde with
a dot below. Since these forms may be interpreted
as variants (or rather precursors) of the modern
question marks, no supplementary question mark has
so far been proposed here.
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Glyph
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Entity
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Unicode
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Descriptive
name
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∣
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E500
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PUNCTUATION
MARK MIDDLE DOT
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&seminv;
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0000
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PUNCTUATION
MARK INVERTED SEMICOLON (PUNCTUS
ELEVATUS)
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&pause;
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0000
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PUNCTUATION
MARK PAUSE (DOT BELOW BREVE)
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&tridots;
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0000
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PUNCTUATION
MARK TRIANGULAR DOTS
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