Re: Punctuation vs symbol characters
Lassi Kortela 28 Nov 2019 14:01 UTC
> Ah, that makes sense. But doesn't help us plebs who have no idea which
> marks belong to a script.
>
> https://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Scripts.txt
That table is instructive but TL;DR for plebs.
> ascii-other? is reasonable. I thought of ascii-weird? :)
>
> How about ascii-mark? Probably parentheses are not "marks".
>
> No, in Unicode "mark" means "diacritical mark", so let's avoid that too.
Good point.
> I tried to look in the thesaurus but can't find any good alternatives.
> Ideas?
>
> Unfortunately I don't.
After sleeping on it for a few more nights, I'm leaning toward
`ascii-other-graphic?`. IMOH it doesn't look terrible when you add up
all the predicates:
* ascii-control?
* ascii-space-or-tab?
* ascii-whitespace?
* ascii-upper-case?
* ascii-lower-case?
* ascii-alphabetic?
* ascii-numeric?
* ascii-alphanumeric?
* ascii-other-graphic?