On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 12:39:47 -0500 James Tauber via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> 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). It's a bit tricky when the reason is that it was too hard to get users of English to make a distinction between U+02BC and U+2019. And for Larry Niven's elephant-like aliens in _Footfall__, is _fi'_, the singular of _fithp_, better written with U+02BC or U+2019? And does the phonetically faithful spelling of Estuarine English _fi'_ for _fit_ depend on whether the glottal stop is dropped? The science-fiction ethnonym _Vl'harg_ is also tricky. Does its elegant encoding depend on whether the apostrophe is a vowel symbol (so U+02BC) or the indication of an omitted vowel (so U+2019)? Richard.
