Doug Ewell scripsit:
> As enticing as it sounds, disunifying it would not solve the problem; it
> would simply move it from the text boundaries category to the legacy
> data conversion category.
Somewhat off the topic:
What I've never understood is why Unicode is so adamant that the ' of
English words is a punctuation mark, not a letter; why when disambiguating
U+0027, English apostrophe is to be mapped to U+2019 and not U+02BC.
It's true that historically "isn't" is derived from "is not", but
synchronically it seems to me to function as a letter in every respect.
It has no sound, but neither does Romance "h"; both exist as a marker of
etymology.
-- Deshil Holles eamus. Deshil Holles eamus. Deshil Holles eamus. Send us, bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening, and wombfruit. (3x) Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa! Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa! Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa! -- Joyce, _Ulysses_, "Oxen of the Sun" jcowan@reutershealth.com
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