From: Bob Hallissy (Bob_Hallissy@sil.org)
Date: Wed May 09 2007 - 06:27:08 CDT
Arne Gtje wrote on 09/05/2007 02:32:52:
> All of the Aboriginal languages in Taiwan use the glottal stop, often
> displayed as apostrophe (').
>
> I saw, that Unicode includes a separate codepoint (U+02BC) for this
usage.
> However, standard US keyboards will send U+0027 to applications when you
> hit the apostrophe key and not U+02BC.
> This can be confusing to the user, because both glyphs look alike and
> the technical difference might not always be clear to everyone (I
> suppose it won't be clear to most users, in fact).
There are many cases where Unicode characters look the same as each other
and might thus be confused. Appropriate keyboard design can help users
select the correct character.
> Is it appropriate to just use U+0027 as glottal stop character as part
> of the alphabet (and therefor in the Locale collation)?
Probably not. In addition to suggestions that have already been made, be
aware that Unicode 5.1 should have two new characters that may be exactly
what you are looking for. For more information, please see the characters
named "saltillo" in
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/N3216.pdf
Bob
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