Re: Ancient Greek apostrophe marking elision

From: James Kass via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 11:45:19 +0000

Mark Davis responded to Asmus Freytag,

>> breaking selection for "d'Artagnan" or "can't" into two is overly fussy.
>
> True, and that is not what U+2019 does; it does not break medially.

Mark Davis earlier posted this example,
> So something like "δ’ αρχαια" (picking a phrase at random) would have
> a word break after the delta.
If the user wanted to use the preferred character, U+2019, would using
the no break space (U+00A0) after it resolve the word or line break
issues?  Or possibly NNBSP (U+202F)?

It's a shame if users choose suboptimal characters over preferred
characters because of what are essentially rendering/text selection
issues.  IMO, it's better to use preferred characters in the long run.

(Users should file bug reports on applications which improperly medially
break strings which include U+2019.)
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