Template talk:Unicode alias/row
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[edit]On my system, ※ causes "correction" to sort before "abbreviation" which is unexpected. Also, TUS just uses the word "correction", not "※ correction" when discussing aliases. I understand ※ appears before the alias in the code charts but it is odd in a table column describing the reason for an alias to exist. DRMcCreedy (talk) 00:29, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Fair enough, but: let's make it show at the start, and not use it for sorting? (using css)
- At last, this is the only one signal Unicode does (to show an alias). The other situations, including illegal characters=iïnformal, aliases, we have to sort out for ourselves. -DePiep (talk) 00:47, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Looking at the table I assumed that reason was taken directly from NameAliases.txt which doesn't use ※. We know that all the items in the table are aliases so I think it's enough that ※ is noted in the text of the article. DRMcCreedy (talk) 00:50, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Sure the symbol is not in the defining text file. But it is in the Unicode description/dfinition. Also sure: Unicode uses it (eg in chart pages). IOW, it is officail. Let's find the css form that does show-don't-sort? -DePiep (talk) 01:01, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Go for it. DRMcCreedy (talk) 01:30, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Sure the symbol is not in the defining text file. But it is in the Unicode description/dfinition. Also sure: Unicode uses it (eg in chart pages). IOW, it is officail. Let's find the css form that does show-don't-sort? -DePiep (talk) 01:01, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Looking at the table I assumed that reason was taken directly from NameAliases.txt which doesn't use ※. We know that all the items in the table are aliases so I think it's enough that ※ is noted in the text of the article. DRMcCreedy (talk) 00:50, 8 November 2019 (UTC)