Re: apostrophe vs. modifier letter apostrophe

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Tue Mar 26 2002 - 05:41:41 EST

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> So, why might a linguist want to go through the extra effort to map 0x27 >
> U+02BC in exactly those contexts when it should map to this and not U+2019
> or something else?

Well, you'd want to be able to distinguish between we' with three
phonemes and the appearance of we (two phonemes) at the end of a quotation.
Not overloading U+0027 would be the Right Thing here.

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