Ancient Greek apostrophe marking elision

Michael Everson via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Sat Jan 26 20:06:57 CST 2019


Polynesians are using 0027 as a fallback, and this has to do with education, keyboarding, and training.

The typography of the fallback is of no consequence. It’s a fallback.

> On 27 Jan 2019, at 01:43, Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 17:11:49 -0800
> Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
> 
>> To make matters worse, users for languages that "should" use U+02BC
>> aren't actually consistent; much data uses U+2019 or U+0027. Ordinary
>> users can't tell the difference (and spell checkers seem not
>> successful in enforcing the practice).
> 
> That appears to contradict Michael Everson's remark about a Polynesian
> need to distinguish the two visually.
> 
> Richard.




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