Doug Ewell scripsit: > As enticing as it sounds, disunifying it would not solve the problem; it > would simply move it from the text boundaries category to the legacy > data conversion category.
Somewhat off the topic: What I've never understood is why Unicode is so adamant that the ' of English words is a punctuation mark, not a letter; why when disambiguating U+0027, English apostrophe is to be mapped to U+2019 and not U+02BC. It's true that historically "isn't" is derived from "is not", but synchronically it seems to me to function as a letter in every respect. It has no sound, but neither does Romance "h"; both exist as a marker of etymology. -- Deshil Holles eamus. Deshil Holles eamus. Deshil Holles eamus. Send us, bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening, and wombfruit. (3x) Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa! Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa! Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa! -- Joyce, _Ulysses_, "Oxen of the Sun" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
