Re: Ancient Greek apostrophe marking elision

From: James Tauber via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 01:12:25 -0500

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 9:41 PM Richard Wordingham via Unicode <
unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:

> To quote TUS:
>
> "A few may modify the following letter, and some may serve as a
> independent letters".
>
> Bear in mind that one of the uses of U+02BC is the scholarly
> representation of a glottal stop, especially in Arabic names.
>

Okay, so this legitimises the use of U+02BC (with its better
word-breaking properties) for the apostrophe marking elision in Ancient
Greek even though U+2019 is stated as the preferred character _in
general_ for the apostrophe.

On balance, this would seem to suggest U+02BC can (and perhaps
should) be used for the specific purpose in Ancient Greek.

(Of course, the other character that comes up is U+1FBD, but there
the consensus seems strong that this is just plain wrong.)

Thank you all.

James
Received on Sat Jan 26 2019 - 00:13:03 CST

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