Re: Ancient Greek apostrophe marking elision

From: James Kass via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 01:55:29 +0000

Richard Wordingham replied to Asmus Freytag,

>> To make matters worse, users for languages that "should" use U+02BC
>> aren't actually consistent; much data uses U+2019 or U+0027. Ordinary
>> users can't tell the difference (and spell checkers seem not
>> successful in enforcing the practice).
>
> That appears to contradict Michael Everson's remark about a Polynesian
> need to distinguish the two visually.

Does it?

U+02BC /should/ be used but ordinary users can't tell the difference
because the glyphs in their displays are identical, resulting in much
data which uses U+2019 or U+0027.  I don't see any contradiction.
Received on Sat Jan 26 2019 - 19:55:49 CST

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