Thank you, although the word break does still affect things like double-clicking to select.
And people do seem to want to use U+02BC for this reason (and I'm trying to articulate why that isn't what U+02BC is meant for). James On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 12:34 PM Mark Davis ☕️ <m...@macchiato.com> wrote: > U+2019 is normally the character used, except where the ’ is considered a > letter. When it is between letters it doesn't cause a word break, but > because it is also a right single quote, at the end of words there is a > break. Thus in a phrase like «tryin’ to go» there is a word break after the > n, because one can't tell. > > So something like "δ’ αρχαια" (picking a phrase at random) would have a > word break after the delta. > > Word break: > δ’ αρχαια > > However, there is no *line break* between them (which is the more > important operation in normal usage). Probably not worth tailoring the word > break. > > Line break: > δ’ αρχαια > > Mark > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 1:10 PM James Tauber via Unicode < > unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > >> There seems some debate amongst digital classicists in whether to use >> U+2019 or U+02BC to represent the apostrophe in Ancient Greek when marking >> elision. (e.g. δ’ for δέ preceding a word starting with a vowel). >> >> It seems to me that U+2019 is the technically correct choice per the >> Unicode Standard but it is not without at least one problem: default word >> breaking rules. >> >> I'm trying to provide guidelines for digital classicists in this regard. >> >> Is it correct to say the following: >> >> 1) U+2019 is the correct character to use for the apostrophe in Ancient >> Greek when marking elision. >> 2) U+02BC is a misuse of a modifier for this purpose >> 3) However, use of U+2019 (unlike U+02BC) means the default Word Boundary >> Rules in UAX#29 will (incorrectly) exclude the apostrophe from the word >> token >> 4) And use of U+02BC (unlike U+2019) means Glyph Cluster Boundary Rules >> in UAX#29 will (incorrectly) include the apostrophe as part of a glyph >> cluster with the previous letter >> 5) The correct solution is to tailor the Word Boundary Rules in the case >> of Ancient Greek to treat U+2019 as not breaking a word (which shouldn't >> have the same ambiguity problems with the single quotation mark as in >> English as it should not be used as a quotation mark in Ancient Greek) >> >> Many thanks in advance. >> >> James >> > -- *James Tauber* Greek Linguistics: https://jktauber.com/ Music Theory: https://modelling-music.com/ Digital Tolkien: https://digitaltolkien.com/ Twitter: @jtauber
