From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Nov 15 2005 - 04:18:16 CST
At 10:29 +0100 2005-11-15, Kent Karlsson wrote:
> > CLDR uses the correct orientation for apostrophes. It also contains
>> mapping information so that someone wanting to use or allow fallback
>> characters such as the ASCII apostrophe can do so. So {c'h} would be
>> used. (I assume that is the punctuation character, not the
>> letter modifier.)
>
>How does one decide? I don't think "c'h" is a contraction here.
The modifier letters were not part of the typographical tradition of
France; the apostrophe was. The letter in Breton is certainly the
punctuation apostrophe, and it doesn't matter if it's not a
contraction. It's a convention.
-- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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