Editing Interpunct (section)

=== Hokkien ===
In [[Pe̍h-ōe-jī]] for [[Taiwanese Hokkien]], middle dot is often used as a workaround for the ''dot above'' right [[diacritic]], since most early encoding systems did not support this diacritic. This is now encoded as {{unichar|0358|COMBINING DOT ABOVE RIGHT|cwith=◌ |note=see [[o͘]]}}. Unicode did not support this diacritic until June 2005. Newer fonts often support it natively; however, the practice of using middle dot still exists. Historically, it was derived in the late 19th century from an older barred-o with curly tail as an adaptation to the typewriter.