You lot...
(In case anyone's interested, I'm working on mappings between
the Ethiopic script-based and Latin script-based orthographies
for Basketto, Koorete, Wolaytta and other Omotic languages of
Ethiopia... )
I can't remember if this question has come up before: Can
someone tell me, for languages that use an apostrophe/single
right curly quotation mark to indicate a glottal stop, is the
Unicode character of choice U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE
(has category Lm)?
What about for those cases where the glottal is written using
the same shape as (European) digit 7? (Not an uncommon
occurrence since typewriters generally didn't give too many
options for how to write a glottal stop.) Category Nd and bidi
property EN aren't appropriate for a word-forming character
that is written strictly LTR; as a wd-f'ing character, it also
shouldn't have numeric, digit etc. properties. I haven't found
anything in the standard that fits (and I think it's an option
to say, "change all your literature to use a true glottal stop
glyph"). Do we need to add a character LETTER GLOTTAL 7 with
category Lo and bidi property L? (I'm expecting I may start
working in a few weeks on defining mappings from custom 8-bit
codepages to Unicode for some of the minority languages of
Mexico that we've worked in, and I know I'm going to encounter
this one several times for those situations as well as for
Wolaytta.)
Peter
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