What's a „long dot“?

l10n
#1

Hi,

what character a "long dot" is? How does it look? What Unicode code does it have?

Thanks,

Michael

#2

Where did you see that? I searched
https://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=DOT
but didn't find anything
Cheers
Sophie

#3

sophi schrieb:

Where did you see that? I searched
https://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=DOT
but didn't find anything

Hi Sophie,

it's one of the today's new strings in Master:

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/master/include/svx/strings.hrc#887

For me a dot can be either big or small, but long? A dash can be long. The entity is ID_SVXSTR_DASH1.

Thanks,

Michael

#4

Is this RID_SVXSTR_DASH1 "Long Dot" ? If so it isn't a character but a
fairly recent addition of an attempt at a description for a line style
seen in e.g. impress, format->object->line->line->line properties

#5

Caolán McNamara schrieb:

Is this RID_SVXSTR_DASH1 "Long Dot" ? If so it isn't a character but a
fairly recent addition of an attempt at a description for a line style
seen in e.g. impress, format->object->line->line->line properties

Hi Caolán,

thank you, yes, you are right but this description and similar ones (e.g. double dot) are confusing. There are no strange long dots, the dotted lines just have a bigger spacing between the dots.

Michael

#6

The original text isn't my creation but if there is a better suggestion
for a description I can submit a change based on that.

#7

How about "Spaced dots"?