Dear Unicoders, which is the proper second character in "N'Ko"? See below for details. Thanks, markus ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Doug Ewell <d...@ewellic.org> Date: Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 9:16 AM Subject: Apostrophes (was: Re: ISO 639-3 changes) To: Philip Newton <philip.new...@gmail.com> Cc: ietf-langua...@iana.org
Philip Newton wrote: 4. For existing subtags, when we add a Description with a real click >> letter, we can simultaneously "correct" any ASCII apostrophes. We >> have already used both U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE (for >> Gwichʼin) and U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (for N’Ko, both >> language and script), and I would prefer to stick to one of these >> consistently for the African languages. >> > > Sounds reasonable to me. FWIW, I’d vote for U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER > APOSTROPHE. > According to TUS, U+02BC is preferred over U+2019 if the character in question is an actual letter of the orthography, which seems to be true here. U+2019 is supported in far more fonts than U+02BC. But I think the goal is to use the "correct" apostrophe character along with the click letters. As a side note, on my system I have more fonts that support U+02BC than the click letters, with only two fonts (Ebrima and MPH 2B Damase) that support click letters but not U+02BC. If you can't see the click letters, it doesn't really matter if you can't see the apostrophe either; you'll fall back to the ASCII name anyhow. So for bundling "better" apostrophes along with the true click letters in Description fields like Juǀʼhoan (Ju/'hoan), as Kent Karlsson originally proposed, I agree with Philip that we should use U+02BC instead of U+2019. What does everyone else think? -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA | http://ewellic.org _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list ietf-langua...@alvestrand.no http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages
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