From: Steve Summit (scs@eskimo.com)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2006 - 06:23:59 CST
I know that the IPA characters for indicating primary and
secondary stress in punctuations are U+02C8 Modifier Letter
Vertical Line and U+02CC Modifier Letter Low Vertical Line,
respectively. But some U.S dictionaries (for example, the
American Heritage) represent primary and secondary stress using
heavy and light prime marks. It only just now occurred to me
that there's no well-defined way to represent those in "pure"
Unicode, i.e. without resorting to some sort of higher-level
typographic markup to specify the glyphs. Or am I missing
something? (I can "cheat" and approximate the right effect by
using, say, U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe and U+02B9 Modifier
Letter Prime, which look about right, at least on the machine I'm
using, but of course that's, well, cheating.)
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