From: Chris Harvey (chris@languagegeek.com)
Date: Tue Nov 15 2005 - 14:03:03 CST
Ysgrifennodd Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> ar y 15-11-2005 am 14:53:
> From: "Chris Harvey" <chris@languagegeek.com>
>> I am aware of this. This is why I mentioned in the same email, “And if
>> the
>> argument in favour for use of U+2019 in Breton is based on convention,
>> then all languages ought to be using U+2019 even for their glottal
>> stops...”
>
> No. Breton does not have glottal stop.... Breton does not use {’} alone
> for a glottal stop.
That’s not what I was talking about at all. It should not matter what the
value of ’ in Breton or Mohawk is, nor did I ever say that Breton has a
glottal stop.
If I may, I’d like to rephrase my question.
Language X has the following alphabet:
a h i k n p r t u x y ’
Point 1: It doesn’t matter what the phonetic realisations of these are to
assign a Unicode codepoint. We know that Latin Script a is U+0061
regardless of how it’s pronounced.
Point 2: We have evidence from Breton that U+2019 is used as part of an
alphabetic letter, instead of just punctuation.
a is U+0061
h is U+0068
...
’ is what?
We could choose U+2019 or we could choose U+02BC. Which one is best?
I hope this question makes sense.
Chris Harvey
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