Module:Colon

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require('strict')

local getArgs = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs
local langSwitch = require('Module:LangSwitch')._langSwitch

local p = {}

function p._colon(args)
	local lang = args.lang or mw.getCurrentFrame():preprocess("{{Int:Lang}}")
	
	-- Please keep the ASCII colon returned as HTML-encoded everywhere, as it MUST NOT be parsed as wiki markup.
	local colon_types = {
		-- Colon with Germanic spacing
		['ger'] = ': ',
		
		-- Colon with Romance spacing
		['rom'] = ' : ',
		
		--[=[ Colon with spacing avoiding confusion with:
			several Arabic diacritics,
			U+0589 Armenian punctuation Full stop,
			U+05C3 Hebrew punctuation sign Sof Pasuk,
			U+0983 Bengali combining sign Visarga,
			U+0903 Devanagari combining sign Visarga,
			U+0A03 Gurmukhi combining sign Visarga,
			U+0A83 Gujarati combining sign Visarga,
			U+0B03 Oryia combining sign Visarga,
			U+0B83 Tamil combining sign Visarga,
			Telugu combining sign Visarga,
			Kannada combining sign Visarga,
			U+0D03 Malayalam combining sign Visarga,
			U+0D83 Sinhalese combining sign Visarga,
			U+0F7F Tibetan combining sign Rnam Bcad (Nam Che),
			U+17C7 / U+17C8 Khmer combining signs Reahmuk / Yukaleakpintu,
			U+2D53 Tifinagh letter Yu (Touareg Yaw)
		]=]
		['sp'] = ' : ',
		
		-- Myanmar: do not use the ASCII colon (too much confusable with a Myanmar letter in many fonts, notably at small sizes), use an en-dash instead
		['my'] = ' – ',
		
		-- Not any spacing
		['no'] = ':',
		
		-- Ethiopic punctuation sign colon
		['eth'] = '፥ ',
		
		-- Mongolian/Mandchu punctuation sign colon
		['mong'] = '᠄',
		
		-- CJK punctuation fullwidth colon (rotated if vertical layout) for Indo-Sinitic scripts used along with Chinese
		['cjk'] = '：'
	}
end

function p.colon(frame)
	return p._colon(getArgs(frame))
end

return p