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 colons = {
		-- 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'] = '：'
	}
	
	local text_args = {
		['default'] = colons['ger'],
		['Zinh-Po-space'] = colons['ger'],
		['en'] = colons['ger'],
		['vls'] = colons['ger'],
		['nds'] = colons['ger'],
		['nds-nl'] = colons['ger'],
		['nl'] = colons['ger'],
		['li'] = colons['ger'],
		['lb'] = colons['ger'],
		['af'] = colons['ger'],
		['de'] = colons['ger'],
		['bar'] = colons['ger'],
		['pt'] = colons['ger'],
		['pt-br'] = colons['ger'],
		['ro'] = colons['ger'],
		['sl'] = colons['ger'],
		['sk'] = colons['ger'],
		['cs'] = colons['ger'],
		['hu'] = colons['ger'],
		['bs'] = colons['ger'],
		['hr'] = colons['ger'],
		['sr-Latn'] = colons['ger'],
		['sr-el'] = colons['ger'],
		['Cyrl'] = colons['ger'],
		['sr'] = colons['ger'],
		['sr-ec'] = colons['ger'],
		['bg'] = colons['ger'],
		['mk'] = colons['ger'],
		['be'] = colons['ger'],
		['be-tarask'] = colons['ger'],
		['ru'] = colons['ger'],
		['Grek'] = colons['ger'],
		['el'] = colons['ger'],
		['pnt'] = colons['ger'],
		
		['Zinh-nnbsp-Po-space'] = colons['rom'],
		['fr'] = colons['rom'],
		['fr-be'] = colons['rom'],
		['fr-ca'] = colons['rom'],
		['fr-ch'] = colons['rom'],
		['fr-lb'] = colons['rom'],
		['oc'] = colons['rom'],
		['ca'] = colons['rom'],
		['wa'] = colons['rom'],
		['br'] = colons['rom'],
		['gsw'] = colons['rom'],
		['la'] = colons['rom'],
		['it'] = colons['rom'],
		['co'] = colons['rom'],
		['eml'] = colons['rom'],
		['nap'] = colons['rom'],
		['rgn'] = colons['rom'],
		['scn'] = colons['rom'],
		['vec'] = colons['rom'],
		['es'] = colons['rom'],
		['gl'] = colons['rom'],
		['ext'] = colons['rom'],
		['rm'] = colons['rom'],
		
		['Zinh-nbsp-Po-space'] = colons['sp'],
		['Hebr'] = colons['sp'],
		['he'] = colons['sp'],
		['yi'] = colons['sp'],
		['ydd'] = colons['sp'],
		['Arab'] = colons['sp'],
		['ar'] = colons['sp'],
		['arz'] = colons['sp'],
		['fa'] = colons['sp'],
		['prd'] = colons['sp'],
		['glk'] = colons['sp'],
		['ps'] = colons['sp'],
		['ur'] = colons['sp'],
		['ug'] = colons['sp'],
		['Armn'] = colons['sp'],
		['hy'] = colons['sp'],
		['Beng'] = colons['sp'],
		['bn'] = colons['sp'],
		['Deva'] = colons['sp'],
		['hi'] = colons['sp'],
		['ne'] = colons['sp'],
		['Guru'] = colons['sp'],
		['pa'] = colons['sp'],
		['Gujr'] = colons['sp'],
		['gu'] = colons['sp'],
		['Orya'] = colons['sp'],
		['or'] = colons['sp'],
		['Taml'] = colons['sp'],
		['ta'] = colons['sp'],
		['Telu'] = colons['sp'],
		['te'] = colons['sp'],
		['Knda'] = colons['sp'],
		['kn'] = colons['sp'],
		['Mlym'] = colons['sp'],
		['ml'] = colons['sp'],
		['Sinh'] = colons['sp'],
		['si'] = colons['sp'],
		['Tibt'] = colons['sp'],
		['bo'] = colons['sp'],
		['Khmr'] = colons['sp'],
		['km'] = colons['sp'],
		['Tfng'] = colons['sp'],
		['ber'] = colons['sp'],
		['shy'] = colons['sp'],
		['tzm'] = colons['sp'],
		
		['Mymr'] = colons['my'],
		['my'] = colons['my']
	}
end

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

return p