I prepared the following message in June 2009, for a discussion now archived at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 108#Periods and full stops (section 93). (More information is at User talk:Wavelength/Archive 2#MOS matters.) I did not post the message to the discussion, probably because of some reason for hesitancy, but I am preserving it here for possible future use.
- I visited the Unicode website at The Unicode Consortium: Home Page and found the following pages.
- Apparently, the experts at Unicode Consortium have adopted FULL STOP (block capitalization theirs) as the official name of the baseline dot (regardless of function), so it might be appropriate to harmonize the name of this entity with that official name.
- Such harmonization might be appropriate for all typographic characters.
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