Re: Ancient Greek apostrophe marking elision

From: James Kass via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 07:52:12 +0000

On 2019-01-28 7:31 AM, Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode wrote:
> Expecting people to type in hard-to-find invisible characters just to
> correct double-click is not a realistic expectation.

True, which is why such entries, when consistent, are properly handled
at the keyboard driver level.  It's a presumption that Greek classicists
are already specifying fonts and using dedicated keyboard drivers. 
Based on the description provided by James Tauber, it should be
relatively simple to make the keyboard insert some kind of joiner before
U+2019 if it follows a Greek letter. This would not be visible to the
end-user.

This approach would also mean that plain-text, which has no language
tagging mechanism, would "get it right" cross-platform, cross-applications.
Received on Mon Jan 28 2019 - 01:52:29 CST

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