Re: Ancient Greek apostrophe marking elision

From: Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 12:38:39 -0500

On 1/27/19 11:08 AM, Michael Everson via Unicode wrote:
> It is a letter. In “can’t” the apostrophe isn’t a letter. It’s a mark of elision. I can double-click on the three words in this paragraph which have the apostrophe in them, and they are all whole-word selected.

That doesn't work when I try it: I double-click on the "a" in "can’t"
and get only the "can" selected.

This does not necessarily prove anything; my software (Thunderbird) is
arguably doing it wrong.

~mark
Received on Sun Jan 27 2019 - 11:38:59 CST

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