Andrew Dunbar wrote:
On 6/16/06, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com>
wrote:
Platonides suggested using Unicode single quotes
(U+2019) instead of
apostrophes, and I meant to suggest using Unicode apostrophes (U+02BC).
Allow me to correct some terminology:
U+2019 is not the "Unicode single quote", It is "right single quotation
mark"
U+02BC is not the "Unicode apostrophe". It is "modifier letter
apostrophe".
Sure. I wasn't giving character names there (which is why I
didn't capitalize them). The numeric codes made it clear which
specific characters I was referring to.
A "modifier letter" is very specifically not
a punctuation mark. It is
a letter and is marked as such in the Unicode database. For instance
if you double-click on a word, this character should always be treated
as part of the word.
Aha. So what happens if you double-click on "doesn't"? :-)
And
there's at least one more possibility: today I happened to
notice that there's also a Unicode double apostrophe character,
U+02EE. I'm not sure, but it might be tailor-made for Neopolitan.
Again, there are multiple Unicode double apostrophe characters,
but this one is also not punctuation but a letter: "modifier letter
double apostrophe".
Just so. And just as U+02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe is
appropriate for use in Hawaiian, there's some chance -- as I
said, I'm not sure, but it's at least a possibility -- that
U+02EE Modifier Letter Double Apostrophe is appropriate for use
in Neapolitan.