On Tue, 20 August 2002, "Martin Heijdra" wrote: > > Just FYI (I have not been following this thread): "officially" in the > bibliographic community, there is NO apostrophe in Wade-Giles K'ang-hsi, or > in Korean aspirated characters; it's an ayn (02BB AYN / MODIFIER LETTER > TURNED COMMA ). The apostrophe is only used between syllables. Of course, > usage outside this group of people varies.
Indeed ... I notice that the Princeton on-line library catalogue uses U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT for the Wade-Giles ayn, thus K`ang-hsi and Ch`ien-lung ! Andrew