On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 21:11:36 -0800 Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> On 1/26/2019 5:43 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: >> That appears to contradict Michael Everson's remark about a >> Polynesian >> need to distinguish the two visually. > Why do you need to distinguish them? To code text correctly (so the > invisible properties are what the software expects) or because a > human reader needs the disambiguation in order to follow the text? > The latter phenomenon is so common throughout many writing systems, > that I have difficulties buying it. It may be a matter of literacy in Hawaiian. If the test readership doesn't use ʼokina, it could be confusing to have to resolve the difference between a sentence(?) starting with one from a sentence in single quotes. Otherwise, one does wonder why the issue should only arise now. One other possibility is that single quote punctuation is being used on a readership used to double quote punctuation. Double quotes would avoid the confusion. > PS: I wasn't talking about what the Polynesians do; different part of > the world. Why should the Polynesians be different? Richard.
