On Tue, 20 August 2002, "Martin Heijdra" wrote:
>
> Just FYI (I have not been following this thread): "officially" in the
> bibliographic community, there is NO apostrophe in Wade-Giles K'ang-hsi, or
> in Korean aspirated characters; it's an ayn (02BB AYN / MODIFIER LETTER
> TURNED COMMA ). The apostrophe is only used between syllables. Of course,
> usage outside this group of people varies.
Indeed ... I notice that the Princeton on-line library catalogue uses U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT for the
Wade-Giles ayn, thus K`ang-hsi and Ch`ien-lung !
Andrew
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