Re: apostrophe vs. modifier letter apostrophe

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 17:21:50 EST

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> U+0027 APOSTROPHE has a general category of Po; U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER
> APOSTROPHE has a general category of Lm. I haven't checked how they
> compare with regard to any other properties. I'm wondering what kinds of
> text processes might be expected to distinguish between these (i.e. give
> different results / behaviours for the two characters).

Well, one example would be that U+02BC would be valid in an identifier,
whereas U+0027 and its more specific counterparts at U+20xx would not.

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