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I’ve seen a couple different websites that pointed out that WALL-E is either spelled with or “promoted with” an interpunct, and I got involved in a forum discussion where people were wondering whether the dot should be rendered as a hyphen or an asterisk (once again, someone explained that it’s an interpunct).
Some letters bear the following diacritic marks, which are mandatory on uppercases and lowercases: acute accent (accent agut), on á, é, ó, í, ú, indicates stressed, close vowels. grave accent (accent grèu), on à, è, ò, indicates stressed, open vowels. cedilla (cedilha), on ç, indicates that ç dieresis (trèma), on ï, ü, indicates that ï and ü are pronounced separately from a previous letter. interpunct (ponch interior, punt interior), on n·h, s·h, indicates a distinction between n·h and nh or s·h and sh. — Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]