RE: Exemplar Characters

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Nov 15 2005 - 04:18:16 CST

  • Next message: Antoine Leca: "Re: Exemplar Characters"

    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
    


    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Tue Nov 15 2005 - 04:25:11 CST