Tables and contextual rule for Katakana middle dot

[Mark Davis]

On what basis?

Mark


2009/4/7 Harald Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>

> Yoshiro YONEYA wrote:
> > Dear Patrik-san,
> >
> > Japanese uses Hiragana, Katakana, Han, Alphabet letters (a-z), and
> > digit (0-9) for names.  KATAKANA MIDDLEDOT is usually used with those
> > names, so the following kind of case is really exists and used:
> >
> >     Play<KATAKANA MIDDLEDOT>Station<KATAKANA MIDDLEDOT>4.jp
> >
> > That is the reason why I said "Japanese context".
> >
> > To be precise, Japanese scripts (for IDN) are consists from:
> >
> >     Hiragana, Katakana, Han, Alphabet, Digit,
> >     IDEOGRAPHIC CLOSING MARK, IDEOGRAPHIC NUMBER ZERO,
> >     KATAKANA MIDDLEDOT and IDEOGRAPHIC ITERATION MARK
> >
> > Extracting Alphabet and Digit from the list is unacceptable.
> >
> > I'll try to express this ambiguous situation more clearly.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> Speaking with sadness:
>
> If this is the case, I think we will have to declare KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
> to have the same status as the apostrophe: Not permitted.
>
>               Harald
>
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