Andrew C. West wrote:
> On Tue, 20 August 2002, John Cowan wrote:
>
> > How about this heuristic:
> >
> > Break after an apostrophe that is the second or third letter in the
> > word. Do not break after apostrophes that come later. This neatly
> > handles (I think) all the English, Italian, and Esperanto cases, and
> > a good many of the French ones.
> >
>
> Does not work with K'ang-hsi or Ch'ien-lung, or apostrophes
> used in IPA and other systems of
> phonetic transcription.
Even my proposal fails in these cases. But John's heuristic fails in much
more common cases.
> Seems to me that one apostrophe is not enough - how about a
> NON-BREAKING APOSTROPHE for cases like
> K'ang-hsi or Ch'ien-lung, and by default the ordinary
> apostrophe is always breaking ?
My guess: nobody will use that new character.
_ Marco
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