Revision as of 17:10, 9 December 2019 edit BabelStone (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 15,629 edits →Reverted note. It's useful but misplaced. It should be in one of the articles that includes that chart. Individual characters aren't footnoted and if they were, there would be hundreds of footnotes in the charts.: Agree ← Previous edit		Revision as of 07:00, 10 December 2019 edit undo 2a02:a455:1903:1:c4d6:4de4:7855:38b5 (talk) →Reverted note. It's useful but misplaced. It should be in one of the articles that includes that chart. Individual characters aren't footnoted and if they were, there would be hundreds of footnotes in the charts. Next edit →
Line 22: :Agreed that notes on individual characters do not belong in the template, but should be added as text in the appropriate article, in this case [[Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (Unicode block)]]. However, the comment "It is meaningless in Unicode" is not appropriate and should be excluded or rewritten to explain exactly how it is meaningless in Unicode. [[User:BabelStone\|BabelStone]] ([[User talk:BabelStone\|talk]]) 17:10, 9 December 2019 (UTC) I am not sure which code charts are made using templates or not, it doesn't matter to the reader, but your assertion that none of the charts contain notes on individual characters is patently false. There are plenty, see [[Code page 437#Character_set]] for just one example. Your slippery slope argument is clearly a straw man, nobody is suggesting to add notes to characters like the individual jamo for example, because one can already see what they are. But HWHF is a mystery character. I don't see why the other notes are better just because they're linked from the title. If the HWHF had been linked from the title, it would it have been more acceptable, even though it would have been functionally worse? Of course not. I think if notes in character tables are unacceptable, the present two notes should go as well. Your assertion that the statement that HWHF is meaningless in Unicode is inappropriate is false. The character is obviously meaningless in a Unicode context and if you're too dumb to see why just check the reference provided. And given that it is, that's an exceptional property for a character and it should be noted. So... 1) Why must the present notes on the character code templates and why can't they be in the relevant articles? 2) Why is the solution to make (some) notes in the character code template appear only in its main article unacceptable? 3) Would turning the HWHF table cell into a hyperlink that leads to an explanation be acceptable?

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