Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 08:00:19 +0000

On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:16:21 -0800
James Kass via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:

> It will probably be the ASCII apostrophe. The stated intent favors
> the apostrophe over diacritics or special characters to ensure that
> the language can be input to computers with standard keyboards.

Typing U+0027 into a word processor takes planning. Of the three, it
should obviously be the modifier letter U+02BC, but I think what gets
stored will be U+0027 or the single quotation mark U+2019.

However, we shouldn't overlook the diacritic mark U+0315 COMBINING COMMA
ABOVE RIGHT.

Richard.
Received on Tue Jan 16 2018 - 02:00:49 CST

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