0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

[Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode]

On 1/19/2018 5:42 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> Hmmm.... that character exists already at 0+0315 (a combining comma 
> above right). It would work for the new Kazah orthographic system, 
> including for collation purpose.  I don't think IDN rejects this 
> combining version.

This is also ineligible for the Root Zone.
A./
>
>
> 2018-01-19 14:37 GMT+01:00 Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr 
> <mailto:verdy_p at wanadoo.fr>>:
>
>     May be the IDN could accept a new combining diacritic (sort of
>     right-side acute accent). After all the Kazakh intent is not to
>     define a new separate character but a modification of base letter
>     to create a single letter in their alphabet.
>     So a proposal for COMBINING APOSTROPHE (whose spacing
>     non-combining version is 02BC), so that SPACE+COMBINING APOSTROPHE
>     will render exactly like 02BC
>
>     2018-01-18 19:51 GMT+01:00 Asmus Freytag via Unicode
>     <unicode at unicode.org <mailto:unicode at unicode.org>>:
>
>         Top level IDN domain names can not contain 02BC, nor 0027 or
>         2019.
>
>         (RFC 6912 gives the rationale and RZ-LGR the implementation,
>         see MSR-3
>         <https://www.icann.org/public-comments/msr-3-2018-01-17-en>)
>
>         A./
>
>
>         On 1/18/2018 3:00 AM, Andre Schappo via Unicode wrote:
>>
>>
>>>         On 18 Jan 2018, at 08:21, Andre Schappo via Unicode
>>>         <unicode at unicode.org <mailto:unicode at unicode.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>         On 16 Jan 2018, at 08:00, Richard Wordingham via Unicode
>>>>         <unicode at unicode.org <mailto:unicode at unicode.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:16:21 -0800
>>>>         James Kass via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org
>>>>         <mailto:unicode at unicode.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>         It will probably be the ASCII apostrophe.  The stated
>>>>>         intent favors
>>>>>         the apostrophe over diacritics or special characters to
>>>>>         ensure that
>>>>>         the language can be input to computers with standard
>>>>>         keyboards.
>>>>
>>>>         Typing U+0027 into a word processor takes planning.  Of the
>>>>         three, it
>>>>         should obviously be the modifier letter U+02BC, but I think
>>>>         what gets
>>>>         stored will be U+0027 or the single quotation mark U+2019.
>>>>
>>>>         However, we shouldn't overlook the diacritic mark U+0315
>>>>         COMBINING COMMA
>>>>         ABOVE RIGHT.
>>>>
>>>>         Richard.
>>>
>>>         I have just tested twitter hashtags and as one would expect,
>>>         U+02BC does not break hashtags. See
>>>         twitter.com/andreschappo/status/953903964722024448
>>>         <http://twitter.com/andreschappo/status/953903964722024448>
>>>
>>
>>         ...and, just in case
>>         twitter.com/andreschappo/status/953944089896083456
>>         <http://twitter.com/andreschappo/status/953944089896083456>
>>         <https://twitter.com/andreschappo/status/953944089896083456>
>>
>>         André Schappo
>>
>
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