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

There’s no redeeming this orthography.

> On 19 Jan 2018, at 13:42, Philippe Verdy via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
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> Hmmm.... that character exists already at 0+0315 (a combining comma above right). It would work for the new Kazah orthographic system, including for collation purpose. I don't think IDN rejects this combining version.
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> 2018-01-19 14:37 GMT+01:00 Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr>:
> May be the IDN could accept a new combining diacritic (sort of right-side acute accent). After all the Kazakh intent is not to define a new separate character but a modification of base letter to create a single letter in their alphabet.
> So a proposal for COMBINING APOSTROPHE (whose spacing non-combining version is 02BC), so that SPACE+COMBINING APOSTROPHE will render exactly like 02BC
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> 2018-01-18 19:51 GMT+01:00 Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>:
> Top level IDN domain names can not contain 02BC, nor 0027 or 2019.
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> (RFC 6912 gives the rationale and RZ-LGR the implementation, see MSR-3)
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> A./
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> On 1/18/2018 3:00 AM, Andre Schappo via Unicode wrote:
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>>> On 18 Jan 2018, at 08:21, Andre Schappo via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
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>>>> On 16 Jan 2018, at 08:00, Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:16:21 -0800
>>>> James Kass via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> However, we shouldn't overlook the diacritic mark U+0315 COMBINING COMMA
>>>> ABOVE RIGHT.
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>>>> Richard.
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>>> I have just tested twitter hashtags and as one would expect, U+02BC does not break hashtags. See twitter.com/andreschappo/status/953903964722024448
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>> ...and, just in case twitter.com/andreschappo/status/953944089896083456
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>> André Schappo
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