RE: FW: New version of TR29:

From: Addison Phillips [wM] (aphillips@webmethods.com)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 08:45:27 EDT


How about "I'll" or "it's".

Regards,

Addison

> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
> Behalf Of John Cowan
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 4:40 AM
> To: Marco Cimarosti
> Cc: 'unicode@unicode.org'
> Subject: Re: FW: New version of TR29:
>
>
> Marco Cimarosti scripsit:
>
> > The issue is making the error window as narrow as possible. My
> assumption is
> > that is common words such as "c'", "d'", "j'", "l'", "n'",
> "qu'", "s'", "t'"
> > or "v'" are more common than edge cases like "prud'homme".
>
> How about this heuristic:
>
> Break after an apostrophe that is the second or third letter in the
> word. Do not break after apostrophes that come later. This neatly
> handles (I think) all the English, Italian, and Esperanto cases, and
> a good many of the French ones.
>
> --
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> Dennett rarely or never cites Bennett, so Bennett rarely or never
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> However, just as
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