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Old Apr 7, 2010, 02:39 PM
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I may have misunderstood slightly, but yeah, we should follow the Japanese punctuation in the Japanese tracklists, but always convert it over to Latin in the western tracklists.

For text font like this "toppage" though, it may be a different matter. I think that in another post, Blah my have mentioned some rationale for not considering those as a separate character set -- it may have been something along the lines of how those were only included so that the this character set would be able to show Latin characters, which are seemingly common in Japan, and there was no intention for them to stand on their own, or to have their own function (unlike the punctuation, each of which has its own usage which may or may not align with the same character in our punctuation.) There is certainly no uniformity - for the same tracklist, some sites will use these characters, while others don't.

The jury is still out on what we should do, so I usually don't mess with them either way.
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