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::::: Okay, clearly I misinterpreted "I think all alias types should be shown using the Type: ALIAS" to mean "replace more specific alias-type labels with the word ALIAS". Makes a lot more sense with a picture drawn, glad I asked.
::::: So my actual concern about U+206x is that stand-in symbols might be mistaken for the actual glyph '''even by readers otherwise familiar with "normal" control/format character abbreviations''' which consist of multiple capital letters. So some explanatory footnotes might really be needed there.
:::::: '''Agreed'''. My first draft of a note would be "A dashed box indicates characters which normally have no visible display or only modify the display of other characters. {{cite web|title = Dashed Box Convention | url = https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode12.0.0/ch24.pdf#G8175 | publisher=Unicode Consortium }}"<br />The citation might be overkill. Although the nuances are pretty complicated so maybe the citation is justified. [[User:Drmccreedy|DRMcCreedy]] ([[User talk:Drmccreedy|talk]]) 02:04, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
::::: Currently the display text can be overridden from the calling environment (ultimately, a block-specific template) for all assigned codepoints with few restrictions,<ref>Exception: whitespace characters, where the main grid disregards all abbreviations real or fake, instead forcing white-on-green rectangular display of the literal character to show relative size (and allow user to select/copy just like any other printable character). This differs from the source material but seems beneficial enough to justify. So for these codepoints, only in the lower info panel can the display text such as <span style="padding: 2px; border:1px dashed black;">NBSP</span> actually be overridden.</ref> which has been done in the U+206x example (and less constructively in the [[User:BabelStone/sandbox#Basic Latin (with various per-cell customizations)|"Vulgar" Latin]] sandbox section). If we do load a master list of favored abbreviations from a sub-module (containing everything from <code>LF</code> to <code>NULL NOTE HEAD</code>), the <code>display_NNNN = FOO</code> parameters could be totally deleted.
::::: ―[[special:contributions/cobaltcigs|cobaltcigs]] 23:14, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
:::::: '''Oops''', I completely forgot about the <code>display_NNNN = FOO</code> parm. I like the idea of a master list because it centralizes the data but either approach will work. [[User:Drmccreedy|DRMcCreedy]] ([[User talk:Drmccreedy|talk]]) 02:04, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
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