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

From: Asmus Freytag \(c\) via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:10:33 -0800

On 1/19/2018 5:42 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> 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.

This is also ineligible for the Root Zone.
A./
>
>
> 2018-01-19 14:37 GMT+01:00 Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr
> <mailto: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
>
> 2018-01-18 19:51 GMT+01:00 Asmus Freytag via Unicode
> <unicode_at_unicode.org <mailto:unicode_at_unicode.org>>:
>
> Top level IDN domain names can not contain 02BC, nor 0027 or
> 2019.
>
> (RFC 6912 gives the rationale and RZ-LGR the implementation,
> see MSR-3
> <https://www.icann.org/public-comments/msr-3-2018-01-17-en>)
>
> A./
>
>
> On 1/18/2018 3:00 AM, Andre Schappo via Unicode wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 18 Jan 2018, at 08:21, Andre Schappo via Unicode
>>> <unicode_at_unicode.org <mailto:unicode_at_unicode.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 16 Jan 2018, at 08:00, Richard Wordingham via Unicode
>>>> <unicode_at_unicode.org <mailto:unicode_at_unicode.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:16:21 -0800
>>>> James Kass via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org
>>>> <mailto: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.
>>>
>>> I have just tested twitter hashtags and as one would expect,
>>> U+02BC does not break hashtags. See
>>> twitter.com/andreschappo/status/953903964722024448
>>> <http://twitter.com/andreschappo/status/953903964722024448>
>>>
>>
>> ...and, just in case
>> twitter.com/andreschappo/status/953944089896083456
>> <http://twitter.com/andreschappo/status/953944089896083456>
>> <https://twitter.com/andreschappo/status/953944089896083456>
>>
>> André Schappo
>>
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