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

So there will be a new administrative jargon in Kazakhstan that people
won't like, and outside the government, they'll continue using their
exiosting keyboards, and will only trnasliterate to Latin using a simple
1-t-to-1 mapping without the ugly apostrophes (most probably acute accents
on vowels, or carons like in Serbian, notably on 'c' and 's' where acute
accents are rarely found in many fonts : there's already a wide support
Latin alphabets of Serbian, Hungarian, Slovakian, Polish ; and the special
case for i can still avoid the computer nightmare of dotless vs. dotted
versions used in Turkish, by using acute accents instead of these damned
apostrophes...)

Newspapers and books will continue for a wihile being published in Cyrillic
(unless the Kazakh autority requires them to ban Cyrillic, but it will
likely occur first on TV).
Soon they will realize that this is not sustainable and that their decision
causes many more problems with international documents, and will finally
adopt the accents that will really promote their language to the web
instead of freezing it in the Dark Age of ambiguous ASCII used in the early
1960's (when even the Cyrillic alphabet was not supported)...

2018-01-24 23:19 GMT+01:00 Doug Ewell via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>:

> James Kass wrote:
>
> > Heh. We are offering sound advice. If people fail to heed it, that's
> > too bad.
>
> We're offering excellent advice, very well informed. But the leadership
> has made the decision that it has made. All the news stories say that
> linguistic experts in Kazakhstan offered similar good advice, and were
> disheartened to learn it was ignored completely.
>
> Richard Wordingham wrote:
>
> > Is it only in English then that typing an apostrophe key after a
> > letter can't be relied UPON to yield U+0027 rather than U+2019?
>
> Um, I always get U+0027 when I expect it.
>
> Oh wait, you must be talking about AutoCorrect on Microsoft Word. Just
> visit AutoCorrect Options and turn off that particular "replace as you
> type" option, and be done with it.
>
> --
> Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
>
>
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Received on Wed Jan 24 2018 - 17:56:23 CST