Re: Ancient Greek apostrophe marking elision

On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 16:11:12 +0000
Michael Everson via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:

> Yes, yes. It doesn’t matter. The discussion applies to both the two
> quotation marks and the two modifier letters.

Actually, there is a difference. As the ʻokina doesnʹt occur at the
end of a word in Hawaiian, one only strictly needs a contrast at the
beginning of a word - unless Hawaiian makes significant use of the
apostrophe for abbreviation. Unfortunately, U+02BB is worse than
U+02BC from this perspective.

Richard.
Received on Sun Jan 27 2019 - 12:20:06 CST