Re: N'Ko - which character? 02BC vs. 2019

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2015-02-02 19:54 GMT+01:00 Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr>:

> On this page
>
> the N'ko Institute hesitates ans uses U+2018 (‘) in English i.e. the
> reverse direction.
> It has advantages that it is used immediately after letter N/n and if ever
> it appears at end of words, it won't match a pair of single quotation marks
> (U+2018 is a punctuation only at start of lines, or after whitespaces and
> punctuations; U+2019 is not always a quotation punctuation after a letter,
> even if it's followed by whitespace or punctuation, it may also be an
> orthographic apostrophe).
>
>
> 2015-02-02 19:14 GMT+01:00 Andrew Glass (WINDOWS) <
> Andrew.Glass_at_microsoft.com>:
>
>> For what it's worth, the N'ko Institute of America uses U+2019. But that
>> is probably a reflection of the font situation and the fact that U+2019 is
>> often more accessible in word processors.
>>
>> http://nkoinstitute.com/the-n-character/
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Christopher Fynn
>> Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 10:13 PM
>> To: Doug Ewell
>> Cc: Markus Scherer; unicode_at_unicode.org
>> Subject: Re: N'Ko - which character? 02BC vs. 2019
>>
>> If used as characters that are part of a word, especially when they occur
>> at the beginning or end of a word, ASCII apostrophes and and both right and
>> left quotation marks easily get changed to something else by the auto
>> quotes features of word-processors.
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